Serum

1 mL serum in red top tube.

Invalid specimen type, inadequate volume, gross hemolysis or gross lipemia, sample not frozen upon receipt.

Deliver to laboratory immediately after collection. Critical frozen.

3-5 days upon receipt at reference laboratory.

The result is reported in ng/mL. The assay range is approximately 16.0 to 1000.0 ng/mL. The reference range for a healthy population is less than 74.5 ng/mL. However it should be noted that these ranges are obtained from a limited population of apparently healthy adults and are not diagnostic thresholds.

For the quantitative measurement of REG3α. REG3α, an anti- inflammatory/anti-bacterial protein expressed in Paneth cells within the epithelium of the small intestine, has been shown to be elevated in medical conditions where immune dysregulation causes damage to the mucosal epithelial barrier.

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