The product is to be used together with the NeoGram Amino Acids and Acylcarnitines Tandem Mass Spectrometry kit, and is intended for the measurement of amino acid, free carnitine, and acylcarnitine concentrations from newborn heel prick blood samples dried on filter paper.
A collection of reagents and other associated materials intended to be used for the qualitative and/or quantitative detection of multiple amino acids, nucleosides, lysophospholipids, and/or carnitine metabolites associated with metabolic disorders of a newborn in a clinical specimen, using a mass spectrometry method. Analytes detected may include all amino acids, free carnitine, acylcarnitine, succinylacetone, adenosine and/or lysophosphatidylcholine.