Collection Instructions Separate serum after clotting. An early morning specimen is preferred.

1.0 ml Serum 2-8 ?C

2.0 ml Serum 2-8 ?C

Collect urine with 10 g Boric acid (preferred) or 25 mL of 50% acetic acid or 30 mL of 6N HCL acid (acceptable) Keep urine refrigerated during collection Mix well and record the total volume on the test request form and urine container. Specimen required is 20 mL of 24 hour urine preserved in 10 g Boric acid (preferred) or 25 mL of 50% acetic acid or 30 mL of 6N HCL acid (acceptable) in a plastic leak-proof container.

20 mL of 24-hour urine with 10 g Boric acid

Collection Instructions Separate serum after clotting. Ship serum refrigerated or frozen. Do not submit glass tubes. Reject Criteria Gross hemolysis ? Serum Separator Tube (SST?)

1.0 ml Serum 2-8 ?C

Collect urine with 10 g Boric acid (preferred) or 25 mL of 50% acetic acid or 30 mL of 6N HCL acid (acceptable) Keep urine refrigerated during collection. Mix well and record the total volume on the test request form and urine container.

20 mL of 24-hour urine with 10 g Boric acid

Collection Instructions Collect specimen in a non-additive red-top tube. Spin down immediately and pour off into a 13 x 75 mm plastic tranport tube.

2.0 ml Serum 2-8 ?C ( no gel separator)

2.0 ml Serum 2-8 ?C

Collect 24-hour urine with 25 mL 6N HCl to maintain a pH ?3. If no preservative is used, specimen must be stored refrigerated during collection but shipped frozen and pH must be ?6. Record 24-hour urine volume and patient's age on test request form and urine container. Patient should avoid food high in indoles: avocado, banana, tomato, plum, walnut, pineapple, and eggplant

20 ml acidified urine (PH 2-3) of 24hrs urine collection 2-8 ?C

1.0 ml Serum 2-8 ?C

2.0 ml EDTA Blood, 2-8 ?C

Maintain specimen at room temperature. Do not refrigerate. If multiple draw, collect EDTA (lavender-top) tube last. Traumatic draw can introduce thromboplastin and trap WBC and platelets. Refrigeration can precipitate fibrin and trap WBC and platelets.

2.0 ml EDTA blood 2-8 ?C

5.0 ml fluoride blood 2-8 ?C

Separate from cells ASAP or within 2 hours of collection. Reject Criteria Gross hemolysis ? Grossly lipemic ? Microbially contaminated

2.0 ml Serum 2-8 ?C

1 ml serum Frozen collected in a red-top tube (no gel)

1.0 ml body fluid 2-8 ?C

Collection Instructions Samples must be obtained before rectal examination, biopsy, prostatectomy or prostatic massage, since manipulating the prostate gland may lead to elevated PAP levels persisting up to 24-48 hours. Specimens must be frozen if received by the laboratory >24 hours after collection.

1.0 ml serum frozen

Collection Instructions Platelet-poor plasma: Centrifuge light blue-top tube for 15 minutes at approximately 1500 g within 60 minutes of collection. Using a plastic pipette, remove plasma, taking care to avoid the WBC/platelet buffy layer and place into a plastic vial. Centrifuge a second time and transfer platelet-poor plasma into a new plastic vial. Plasma must be free of platelets (<10,000/mcL). Freeze immediately and ship on dry ice.

2.0 ml Citrated ?plasma (Frozen) poor plateletes

Patient Preparation Patient should be in a well-fed state Freeze immediately after separation. Date of birth is required.

2.0 ml Frozen Heparine Plasma

Patient Preparation Patients should refrain from taking biotin supplements or biotin containing vitamins 24-48 hours before blood draw (applies only when drug level assay is performed together with anti-drug antibody assay). The blood should be drawn just before the next infusion of adalimumab to measure the trough drug level.

2.0 ml Serum 2-8 ?C ( no gel separator)

Collection Instructions Please submit a separate, frozen vial for each special coagulation assay ordered. Draw blood in a light blue-top tube containing 3.2% sodium citrate, mix gently by inverting 3-4 times. Centrifuge 15 minutes at 1500 g within one hour of collection. Using a plastic pipette, remove plasma, taking care to avoid the WBC/platelet buffy layer and place into a plastic vial. Freeze immediately and transport on dry ice.

2.0 ml Citrated plasma Frozen

2.0 ml Serum 2-8 ?C

1.0 ml EDTA Blood 2-8 ?C

1.0 ml CSF or Serum (Frozen)

1.0 ml Serum 2-8 ?C