Gonadotropin-releasing hormone-994

Test info

  
Gonadotropin-releasing hormone
  
994
  
LAB994
  
MSO
  
GNRH
LHRH

Specimen

  
EDTA plasma
  

Lavender, from Trasylol® collection kit

  
1.0 mL
  
0.5 mL
  
  1. Using a chilled 6-mL lavender-top (EDTA) tube taken from a Trasylol® kit, collect a whole blood specimen
  2. Immediately following collection, mix the specimen several times by inverting the EDTA collection tube to prevent clotting
  
  1. After removing the cap from the EDTA draw tube, take one of the sterile, Beral pipettes (from under the grey foam), and add 0.25 mL Trasylol® to the EDTA tube.
  2. Recap the EDTA tube and invert several times to mix well.
  3. Centrifuge the EDTA tube to separate the plasma from the cells, and immediately transfer the plasma into one of the brown screw-cap transfer tubes provided in the kit. There should be a "Trasylol® Added" label affixed to the brown transfer tubes.
  4. Cap and freeze the labeled transfer tube containing the EDTA plasma with Trasylol® added.
  

Brown screw-cap transfer tube from a Trasylol® collection kit

  

Frozen (preferred) - 291 days

Refrigerated - 48 hours

Performance

  
LabCorp Esoterix (502421): R-NX
  
1x /week
  
13 days
  

High-pressure liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry (HPLC/MS-MS)

Clinical and Interpretive info

  

<25 pg/mL

Billing

  
83727

Tracking

  
09/19/2019
  
04/08/2022
  
04/06/2022