Specimen Collection Device | Mitra Micro Sampling Technology

A Better Experience

Improve blood donor experience from a less invasive collection method. Mitra Microsamplers don’t require a painful venipuncture and facilitate time-saving home blood sample collection with fingerstick draws. This technology is particularly useful when working with children or the elderly, and helps improve compliance in clinical trials.

• Well suited for neonates and children with low blood volume

• Provide the ill and elderly the option of fewer visits to the clinic for blood draws

• Reduce needle anxiety with capillary blood draws

• Comfort and convenience positively impacts compliance and adherence

Economical Operations

Reduce blood specimen shipping and storage costs. Simplify logistics and eliminate cold chain. The Mitra device provides the benefits of working with dried blood, but with a volumetrically accurate, stable blood specimen that is amenable to extraction automation with reduced incidence of reworks.

• Simplify lab workflow and infrastructure

• Overcome the hassle and expense of handling wet blood and address filter paper limitations

• Enable affordable blood specimen collection from home or low-resource regions

• Combine PK-PD and/or efficacy assessments in same study animals

Reliable Results

Never leave blood specimen volume to chance. With basic training, you can collect a 10 or 20 µL blood specimens with < 4% RSD. Reduce or eliminate the volumetric blood hematocrit (HCT) bias associated with DBS cards to generate dependable bioanalytical data with strong correlations to plasma.

• Independent studies confirm elimination of volumetric HCT effect

• Eliminate inter-animal variability to improve data quality in drug research

• Yield high quality DNA/RNA to use successfully in qPCR, Next Generation Sequencing, etc.

• Compatible with typical analysis technique such as LC-MS/MS and ELISA

Events

Explore blood microsampling applications - and see Mitra technology in action - at the Next Generation DX summit. Click here to learn more.

Resource Highlight

PK-profile derived from a single rodent for exenatide, using VAMS blood collection technology. Download R&D Poster

Post Highlight

The most significant challenges in clinical trials are adherence and compliance. Here's how we can improve