Blood assays, methods and processing laboratories
| Blood analyte | Amount of blood/serum sample (μL) | Assay method | Instrument used | Processing lab |
| Haemoglobin+mean cell volume | 500 | Photometric assay | Sysmex p100 hematology analyzer | Matiari Research Laboratory, AKU, Pakistan |
| Ferritin | 200 | Immunoturbidimetric assay | CobasC311Analyzer, Roche diagnostics | NRL, AKU, Pakistan |
| C reactive protein | 200 | Immunoturbidimetric assay | CobasC311Analyzer, Roche diagnostics | NRL, AKU, Pakistan |
| Serum archiving for shipment | 1000 | – | ThermoScientific TSX-Series −80°C Ultralow temperature freezer | NRL, AKU, Pakistan |
| Serum metabolomics study | 50 | Metallomics assay | ICP-MS | TMIC, Alberta, Canada |
AKU, Aga Khan University; ICP-MS, Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry; NRL, Nutrition Research Laboratory; TMIC, The Metabolomics Innovation Centre.