NPN (FROM TRANS Flashcards
NPN
NONPROTEIN NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
HAVE BEEN USED TO MONITOR FUNCTION/KIDNEY FUNCTION
NONPROTEIN NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
MEASUREMENT OF NPN WOULD DETERMINE THE ,,_ OF THE KIDNEYS
FILTERING CAPACITY
REABSORBING CAPACITY
ILLUMINATING CAPACITY
THE TERM NPN ORIGINATED WHEN ANALYTIC METHODOLOGY REQUIRED
REMOVAL OF PROTEIN FROM SAMPLE BEFORE ANALYSIS
REMOVAL OF PROTEIN FROM THE SAMPLE BEFORE ANALYSIS
DEPROTEINIZATION
CONCENTRATION OF NITROGEN-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS WAS QUANTIFIED SPECTROPHOTOMETICALLY BY
CONVERTING NITROGEN TO AMMONIA
CONVERTING NITROGEN TO AMMONIA SUBSEQUENT REACTION WITH NESSLER’S REAGENT PRODUCE
YELLOW COLOR
WHEN THERE IS SUCH THING AS DEPROTEINIZATION,WE CALL THE SPECIMEN AS
PROTEIN FREE-FILTRATE
MAJORITY OF NPN COMPOUNDS ARISE FROM CATABOLISM OF
PROTEINS AND NUCLEIC ACIDS
UREA APPROXIMATE PLASMA CONCENTRATION (% OF TOTAL NPN)
45-50
AMINO ACIDS APPROXIMATE PLASMA CONCENTRATION (% OF TOTAL NPN)
25
URIC ACID APPROXIMATE PLASMA CONCENTRATION (% OF TOTAL NPN)
10
CREATININE APPROXIMATE PLASMA CONCENTRATION (% OF TOTAL NPN)
5
CREATINE
1-2
AMMONIA APPROXIMATE PLASMA CONCENTRATION (% OF TOTAL NPN)
0.2
UREA APPROXIMATE URINE CONCENTRATION (% OF EXCRETED NITROGEN)
86.0
URIC ACID APPROXIMATE URINE CONCENTRATION (% OF EXCRETED NITROGEN)
1.7
CREATININE APPROXIMATE URINE CONCENTRATION (% OF EXCRETED NITROGEN)
4.5
AMMONIA APPROXIMATE URINE CONCENTRATION (% OF EXCRETED NITROGEN)
2.8
HIGHEST CONCENTRATION IN THE BLOOD
UREA
MAJOR EXCRETORY PRODUCT OF PROTEIN METABOLISM
UREA
UREA IS FORMED IN THE
LIVER
BUN
BLOOD UREA NITROGEN
UREA N
UREA NITROGEN