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GI Testing -- III
Plasma Proteins -- I
Plasma Proteins -- II
Plasma Lipids -- I
Plasma Lipids -- II
100
Two B-vitamins that are tested to help diagnose small intestinal disease in dogs and cats.
What are cobalamin and folate?
100
Total serum protein is the sum of these two major types of plasma proteins.
What are albumin and globulin?
100
When measured by refractometer, a false elevation in total serum protein often occurs with this plasma condition.
What is lipemia?
100
The most abundant type of lipid in the body and in the diet.
What are triglycerides?
100
The most common steroid lipid in the body.
What is cholesterol?
200
The test that separates major classes of plasma proteins based on their molecular size.
What is protein electrophoresis?
200
An increase in both serum albumin and serum globulins is almost always due to this condition.
What is dehydration?
200
The peptide-lipid complex that transports lipids through the blood, AND the organ that makes this complex.
What is a lipoprotein, and what is the liver?
200
Two diseases that may cause hypercholesterolemia.
What are hypothyroidism (dogs), diabetes mellitus, hyperadrenocorticism, pancreatitis, nephrotic syndrome, familial hypercholesterolemia.
300

Absorption of this B-vitamin takes place only in the ileum, and requires binding to intrinsic factor.

What is cobalamin?

300
The pressure exerted by plasma proteins that keeps fluid in capillaries.
What is oncotic pressure (or colloidal osmotic pressure)?
300
On a protein electrophoresis, an abnormal sharp peak in the beta or gamma-globulin region.
What is a monoclonal gammopathy?
300
Serum cholesterol measurement roughly correlates to these two lipoprotein classes.
What are LDL and HDL?
300
This is mandatory patient preparation before a serum triglyceride test.
What is a 12-hour fast?
400
The plasma protein responsible for 80% of the pressure that keeps fluid in capillaries.
What is albumin?
400
The term for a decrease in both serum albumin and serum globulins.
What is panhypoproteinemia?
400
Measurement of the turbidity of a serum sample that is reported by a reference lab.
What is the lipemia index?
400
The method that many reference labs use to clear serum samples of lipemia.
What is ultracentrifugation?
500
If serum levels of both these B-vitamins are decreased, then significant disease is present in this area of the small intestine.
What is the entire small intestine?
500
Positive acute-phase proteins belong to this class of globulins.
What are the alpha-globulins?
500
The reason why fibrinogen is not routinely reported on serum chemistry panels.
What is "Because fibrinogen isn't present in serum; it is only present in plasma."
500
Chyle (lymph fluid) has high levels of this lipid.
What are triglycerides?
500
One serum chemistry test (besides total serum protein) that will be falsely elevated in a lipemic sample.
What is bilirubin, bile acids, phosphorus, glucose.