The pattern of production, excretion, and concentration of analytes that occurs every 24 hours is known as
What is circadian variation?
100
Ion selective electrodes measure potential difference across a membrane using the principles of
What is potentiometry?
100
Protein catalysts that decrease the activation energy of a chemical reaction, can be altered by heat.
What is an enzyme?
100
Slides of multilayer films or impregnated fiber strips
What is dry slide technology?
100
Increased alpha 1 antitrypsin
What is used to determine emphysema
200
Absorbance is directly proportional to concentration.
What is Beer's Law?
200
A highly sensitive and specific chromatographic method that provides a quantitative result concerning serum drug concentration and uses a fixed loop injector to send the mobile phase into the column
What is high performance liquid chromatography? (HPLC)
200
An enzymatic reaction in which the rate of reaction is proportional to the concentration of the reactant.
What is a first order reaction?
200
Reduced turn around time, reduced time between test results and clinical decisions, improvement of health outcomes.
What are advantages of Point of Care Testing?
200
The most abundant protein in plasma, a negative acute phase reactant, transporter of many substances, and maintains osmotic colloidal pressure.
What is albumin?
300
1000-1200 x g for 10 +/- 5 minutes
What is the CLSI standard for relative centrifugal force?
300
Measures the electrical charge passing between two electrodes in an electrochemical cell.
What is coulometry?
300
Enzyme produced by pancreas that is most specific in diagnosis for the detection of acute pancreatitis.
What is lipase?
300
TN/(FP + TN) X 100
What is clinical specificity?
300
In SPE the albumin band appears distorted and large
What is sample overload?
400
Effect of hemolysis on potassium and LD
What is increase?
400
Ion source, vacuum system, mass analyzer, detector, computer
What are components of the mass spectrometer
400
Enzyme that is reduced in liver disease and/or insecticide poisoning.
What is cholinesterase?
400
Denature, anneal, extend
What is the sequence of events for PCR?
400
Casual blood glucose of >200 mg/dl, two hour OGTT value >200 mg/dl, fasting plasma glucose >126 mg/dl
What are confirmatory of diabetes mellitus?
500
What the colors indicate on the NFPA hazard diamond
What is Blue for health, red for fire, yellow for reactivity, and white for other specific hazards?
500
In mass spectrometry, the unfragmented ion of the original molecule being studied
What is molecular ion?
500
An enzymatic reaction in which the rate of reaction is independent of the concentration of a reactant.
What is a zero-order reaction?
500
Bidirectional
What is an interface that allows information to flow out of LIS and into the analyzer, as well as, allowing results to flow out of the analyzer in into LIS?
500
Non insulin dependent, caused by impaired insulin action