The effect of common blood sampling types on metabolic screening

• Published in: Scandinavian journal of clinical and laboratory investigation Vol. 85; no. 3; p. 196
• Main Authors: Bal, Ceylan, Özyurt, Esra, Yılmaz, Gülsen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England 03.04.2025
• Subjects: Adult; Amino Acids - blood; Blood Specimen Collection - methods; Carnitine - analogs & derivatives; Carnitine - blood; Dried Blood Spot Testing - methods; Female; Humans; Male; Middle Aged; Tandem Mass Spectrometry; acylcarnitine; metabolic screening; Amino acid; MS/MS; blood samples

Capillary blood is often used for dried blood spot samples in metabolic screening tests. This study's objective is to examine the amino acid and acylcarnitine levels in the commonly used sampling types from the same subjects and compare the findings with capillary whole blood samples as the ref...