Aalto Scientific, Ltd. products

In addition to our human blood, serum, and plasma products, Aalto can produce control materials that mimic a wide variety of alternate human body fluids.

Aalto’s Amniotic Fluid Control is a liquid product formulated to mimic human amniotic fluid for the purposes of monitoring the quality of amniocentesis analysis. Factors which can be measured include fetal lung maturity, lecithin to sphingomyelin ratio (L:S) and phosphotidylglycerol concentration. This product comes in a convenient and easy to use liquid formulation.

Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis is a set of laboratory tests that examine a sample of the fluid surrounding the brain and spinal cord. This fluid is a clear and colorless ultrafiltrate of plasma. It contains glucose, electrolytes, amino acids, and other small molecules found in plasma. Under normal circumstances, CSF has very little protein and few cells. CSF protects the central nervous system from injury, cushions it from the surrounding bone structure, provides it with nutrients, and removes waste products by returning them to the blood. CSF is withdrawn from the subarachnoid space through a needle by a procedure called a lumbar puncture or spinal tap. CSF analysis includes tests in clinical chemistry, hematology, immunology, and microbiology.