Metabolokeeper® (Feces) sampling kit

Techno Suruga Lab

Catalog No.: TSG-FS-0015

Background

When analyzing the intestinal microbiota, it is essential to maintain the bacterial composition of collected feces in a stable condition. Techno Suruga Lab provides collection containers that enable subjects to collect the required amount of stool at home, following simple procedures, and store it at room temperature.

Techno Suruga Lab’s brush-type collection container is designed for fecal occult blood testing and is ideal for collecting solid stool, ensuring an appropriate sample size for amplicon sequencing analysis. Techno Suruga Lab also offers a spoon-type collection container, which is suitable for collecting watery stool or larger quantities of stool for fecal physicochemical analysis.

In addition, stool samples collected with Metabolokeeper® can be analyzed for organic acids (short-chain fatty acids) without freezing. These samples are also suitable for intestinal microbiota analysis.

Product Description

The MetaboloKeeper kit is used for collecting, handling, and storing fecal specimens for microbiome and metabolomics research. Its main function is to eliminate the need for immediate freezing, allowing samples to be stored and shipped at room temperature. This simplifies specimen handling and makes large-scale studies with at-home collection more convenient.

This product is a stool collection kit that preserves fecal organic acids (short-chain fatty acids) and intestinal flora for up to one month at room temperature (1 °C to 30 °C).
This kit enables fecal organic acid (short-chain fatty acid) analysis and intestinal bacterial flora analysis without the need for freezing.
The upper part of the container contains a storage solution, and the internal standard substance within this solution allows for quantitative concentration correction.
The kit is supplied together with the Rakuryu Cup WIDE.

※Limited to organic acid (short-chain fatty acid) analysis