Glucose
The hormone that lowers blood glucose and increases cellular uptake of glucose.
What is insulin?
The chemistry panel that tests the overall health of the patient.
What is a comprehensive metabolic panel or general health panel?
The term that refers to when a person has not ingested food or taken in calories for 8 hours before a test is performed.
What is fasting?
The pigment that gives bile its color.
What is bilirubin
The typical age or time of life when Type 1 Diabetes starts presenting symptoms
What is childhood or young adulthood?
The hormone that raises blood glucose and decreases cellular uptake of glucose.
What is glucagon?
The purpose for a lipid panel to be performed.
What is an assessment of risk for heart disease?
The term that refers to when a person's immune system starts attacking it's own cells.
What is an autoimmune disorder?
The two most common types of protein that are also found in a liver function panel.
What is albumin and globulin?
The cause of Type 2 Diabetes
What is the body failing to properly use insulin causing an insulin resistance?
The term that is used to refer to when a test is performed after a person has eaten or consumed calories.
What is postprandial?
These 4 ions are the primary components in an electrolyte panel.
What is bicarbonate, chloride, potassium, and sodium?
The term that refers to when someone has a heart attack
What is a myocardial infarction?
The enzyme that uses the acronym ALT
What is alanine aminotransferase?
This is Eb's dogs name (I ran out of topics in Chemistry I won't lie)
What is Gerty?
The normal reference value that is used for a test that measures the average amount of blood glucose over the previous several weeks.
What is less than or equal to 5.7%?
This is the most important enzyme that is tested for in a myocardial infarction panel.
What is creatine kinase?
The analyte that is produced by the breakdown of amino acids.
What is blood urea nitrogen (BUN)?
The enzyme that uses the acronym ALP
What is alkaline phosphatase?
This is my cat's name
What is Ash?
The specific name of the areas in the pancreas in which insulin and glucagon are produced and excreted from.
What are the Islets of Langerhans?
These 2 terms describe the two types of cholesterol that is found in a coronary risk or lipid panel.
What is high-density lipoprotein (HDL) and low-density lipoprotein (LDL)?
The term referring to a patient having excessive thirst.
What is polydipsia
The enzyme that uses the acronym AST
What is aspartate aminotransferase?
This is what LASER stands for (look man I know this randomly and also can't figure out anything else to put about chemistry)
What is light amplified by stimulated emissions of radiation?