CLINICAL CHEMISTRY Flashcards
A volumetric pipette has an accuracy of
1:1000
A pipette with a bulb close to the delivery tip is used for viscous fluids
Ostwald-Folin pipette
The etched rings on the top of a pipette means
The last drop is to “blown out” after the pipettes drains
Standard solution from which 99.95% of the chemical can be retrieved
Primary Standards
When preparing solutions
A percent solution can be prepared from a volumetric solution
A solution in which the molecules of solute in solution are in equilibrium with excess undissolved molecules
Saturated
Pure water has a pH of
7.0
A 1x10(-6) N solution of hydrocloric acid (HCl) has a pH of
8.0
A standard term that most specifically describes analytical precision
Coefficient of variation
- Standard Deviation
- Variance
Quality Control should be used with all procedures deterrmine
Reliability
A procedure has a 2SD variation from a mean value. How many values from from a normal population will the 2SD include
95.45%
Material with physical and chemical properties closely resembling the test specimen and containing concentrations of the substances being measured
Control
Optical density, according to Beer’s Law
Directly proportional to the concentration
The difference between serum and plasma is that serum does not contain
Fibrinogen
Two control sera are desirable for each general chemistry procedure. Which of these combinations would be appropriate
Mean of normal range and abnormal (high)
Sodium flouride is used in specimen collection to
Prevent glycolysis
The concentration of oxalate recommended to be used as anticoagulant, in mg/ml blood
1-2
Ethylenediamine tetraacetic acid (EDTA) work as anticoagulant by
Chelating Calcium
The venipuncture site for a routine puncture is commonly cleaned with:
70% alcohol
The one precaution to be followed with a specimen for bilirubin determination is to
Protect from light
Substances cannot be preserved by feezing
Lactic dehydrogenase
Serum iron should be drawn at the same time on successive days to avoid
Diurnal variation
Proteins soluble in water
Albumin
The Amino Acids are joined together to form chainlike structure through
Peptide bonding
Elements in proteins differentiate this class of substances from carbohydrates and lipids
Nitrogen
Amino Acid cannot rotate polarized light
Glycine
Denaturation of proteins refers to an
Alteration in tertiary structure
The hemoglobin measurement technique employed for blood donor
Flotation technique of Phillips
Refers to the ratio of velocities of light in two different media
Refractive Index
The most anodic protein on electrophoresis at pH 8.6
Albumin
When protein is at its isoelectric point, the protein will have a
Net zero charge
Svedberg(S) number refer to protein
Ultracentrifugation
The macroglobulins belong to what sedimentation class
19.0S
As urine is heated, a precipitate appears 60C and disappears 100C. The substance present is
Bence Jones Protein
The process of separating albumin from globulins using sodium sulfate
Salting Out
The conversion of protein nitrogen contain to protein content depends on the factor
6.54
NOT true of the biuret reaction
Is relatively free from interference by lipids and hemolysis
In Acute Renal Failure which non protein nitrogen rises the fastest
Blood urea Nitrogen
Why is bromcresol purple the preferred indicator for albumin dye binding technique?
There is less interference from pigment
Reagent employed in the serum protein determination
Biuret
Reason why hemolyzed serum should not be used for total protein
Hemoglobin is absorbed at the same wavelength as protein of biuret reagent
Turbidity in serum is associated with presence of
Chylomicrons
Glycoproteins and mucoproteins are usually bound to
Galactose and Mannose
NOT glycoproteins
Cryoglobulin
NOT applicable to mucoproteins
Hormones and coagulation proteins are induced in this class
How many immunoglobulin classes are currently recognized
Five
When performing an immunoglobulin electrophoresis, there must be present
Excess antibody and constant trough distance between antibody and antigen
Decrease in Albumin, Increase Gamma globulin
Monoclonal gammopathy
Temperature sensitive proteins
Cryoglobulins
TRUE of Albumin
It is produced by liver
To measure urinary protein you can use
Biuret reagent with trichloroacetic acid pretreatment of urine
An elevated creatinine value is most likely to be accompanied
Elevated BUN, 10x creatinine value
Conversion factor for BUN to urea
2.14
By the urease method, urea is enzymatically converted to
Ammonia
Untreated urine can be used for determination of urea by the diacetyl monoxime method because
the method is not measuring ammonia
Urinary creatinine may be elevated in
Muscle Destruction
The measurement of creatinine is based on the formation of a yellow-red color with:
Alkaline picrate
The classic creatinine reaction
Jaffe
The specificity of the Jaffe reaction can be enhanced by
Adsorption with Lloyd’s reagent
A disease state assoc. with an elevation of serum uric acid
Gout
The most common reagent employed in uric acid methodology by alkaline oxidation
Phosphotungstic Acid
The uricase method for uric acid assays depends on
Ultraviolet absorption peak at 290nm before and after treatment with uricase
The most precise method for amino acid determination
Gasometric ninhydrin reaction
The urea clearance test is an indication of
overall kidney function
The creatinine clearance is based on the assumption that creatinine
Passes into the ultrafiltrate
Most accurate clearance test that measure glomerular filtration
Inulin
Clearance test offers best measure of tubular function
p-aminohippurate (PAH)
determination of osmolality involves measurement of
Freezing Point depression
Patients with borderline blood glucose levels are further investigated by performing
3 hour glucose tolerance test (GTT)
The test that gives a two to three (2-3) month picture of diabetic glucose level
HemoglobinA1C
ensure validity of the glucose tolerance test
- a 150 g/day carbohydrate diet for 3 days prior to the test
- a fasting state before glucose is given
- No undue stress before or during the test
Contamination of the glucose reagent with catalase is a problem with which glucose method
Glucose Oxidase
Based on reduced coenzyme read at 340 nm
Hexokinase methodology (glucose det)
Proteins are precipitated by which of the following reagents in the Folin Wu mtd
Tungstic Acid
The interfering reducing substances in the Folin Wu glucose mtd may be removed by
ZInc-barium precipitation
The copper reduction method for glucose, measurable color is developed though the formation of
Molybdenum blue
The most frequently employed automated method for glucose uses
Reduction of alkaline ferricyanide to ferrocyanide
When sugars are separated by chromatography, the application of anisaldehyde/ sulfuric acid/ ethyl alcohol spray will identify galactose as what color spot
Grey
Seliwanoff’s test detects
Fructose
Xylose excretion is helpful in the determination of
Intestinal malabsorption