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Non-Protein Nitrogen substances-NPN

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Nessler's reagent   convert nitrogen to ammonia which formed a yellow color  
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Berthlot Reaction   Nitroprusside + NH4 = color  
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BUN Blood Urea Nitrogen   major nitrogen-containing metabolic product of protein catabolism in humans  
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How is BUN formed?   Exogenous protein: protein in diet Endogenous: protein from breakdown of cells in body  
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Where is BUN synthesized?   In the liver from CO2 and ammonia  
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How is ammonia formed?   by the deamination of amino acids during protein catabolism. It is converted to urea.  
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How is urea transported and to where?   carried in blood to the kidney and filtered in the glomerulus  
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How much urea is excreted and reabsorbed?   60% is excreted and about 40% is reabsorbed  
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What does BUN do?   indicator of renal function/ how well kidneys work  
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Uremia   increased levels of urea in the blood/usually associated with renal failure  
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Azotemia   elevated levels of urea, creatinine and uric acid in the blood  
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Pre-renal   caused by reduced renal blood flow  
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renal   decreased renal function  
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Post-renal   obstruction of the urine flow anywhere in the urinary tract  
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What do high levels of BUN mean?   kidney failure  
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Renal disease   abnormal urea concentrations determined by calculation of the urea/creatinine ratio.  
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Normal urea/creatinine ratio   10:1 to 20:1  
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Pre-renal disease   high ration/creatinine is normal  
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Post-renal disease   high ration/creatinine is elevated  
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Severe liver disease   low ratio/decreases urea production BUN levels low  
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BUN-Analytic Methods   conversion factor is calculated using the molecular weight of BUN (60) and nitrogen (28)  
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To convert from urea to urea nitrogen   divide the molecular weight of nitrogen by the molecular weight if urea (28/60) for a factor of 0.467  
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To convert urea nitrogen to urea   the factor is (60/28) or 2.14  
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Diactyl or Fearon reaction   colorimetric reaction/condensation of diacetyl with urea to form the chromogen diazine  
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Enzymatic method   Hydrolysis of urea by urease  
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2 enzymatic methods   Glutamate dehydrogenase (GLDH) procedure and Nessler's reaction  
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GLDH   oldest method and most common used, standard and least expensive. Often coupled with L-glutamate dehydrogenase to measure the rate of disappearance of NADH  
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Nessler's reaction   The addition of a double iodide compound / results in the formation of a yellow to orange brown compound in NH4  
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Ion selective electrodes   measure the generation of ammonium ions/not a great method  
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Chromogen dyes   pH indictors/ measure the amount of ammonium ions- the more acids the more color  
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BUN Specimen requirements   Serum. DO NOT USE: sodium citrate or sodium fluoride - inhibit urease reaction of analysis. fasting is not required  
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BUN normal ranges   serum: 7-18mg/dl Urine: 12-20 g/day  
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Creatine   It is synthesized in the liver and transported to tissue (mostly muscle) and converted to phosphocreatine  
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Creatinine   Synthesized in liver from 3 amino acids (arginine, glycine & methionine). A waste product of creatine and creatine phosphate. Generated through a nonenzymatic irreversible dehydration reaction.  
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What is creatinine a waste product of?   creatine and creatine phosphate  
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Where is creatinine filtered   glomeruli and does not undergo and significant tubular reabsorption.  
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How is creatinine excreted   in the urine.  
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Disease correlation of elevated creatinine   abnormal renal function / decreased glomerulus filtration rate. GFR= V/T  
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Creatine Clearance Test   The volume of plasma cleared of creatinine per minute per standard body surface/ assessment of GFR. More muscle mass the more creatinine you make  
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Desease correlation of elevated creatine   muscle disease, muscular dystrophy, hyperthyroidism, trauma. NOT RELATED TO RENAL DISEASE. Not commonly tested in lab  
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Jaffee reaction   End point reaction. Creatinine reacts with picrate ion in alkaline solution, forms a red-orange substance, & measure with a spectrophotometer at 510-520nm. non-specific/many interfering substances  
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Kinetic Jaffee   measures the rate of change in absorbance/serum mixed with alkaline picric acid, rate of reaction is measured (color)/fewer interferences/ routinely used  
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Enzymatic reaction   coupled enzymatic methods including: creatinine, sarcosine oxidase, and peroxidase (trinder reaction)  
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Creatinine specimen requirements   plasma, serum, and urine/ DO NOT USE HEMOLYZED AND ICTERIC SAMPLES.  
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Creatinine interfering factors   false elevations from ascorbic acid, glucose, alpha-keto acids, cephalosporins with Jaffee  
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BUN:Cr ratio   10:0 to 20:0  
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Renal disease (BUN:Cr ratio)   BUN and Cr are both elevated proportionally/ration fall in normal range  
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Prerenal azotemia   high ration >20:1 to 30:1 with high BUN & normal/slightly elevated Cr  
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Postrenal obstruction or Prerenal azotemia or Renal disease   high ratios with an elevated Cr  
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What is uric acid   nitrogenous end product of the catabolism of purines (from dietary & endogenous sources)/primarily occurs in the liver & transported to the kidney via plasma  
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uric acid at a pH less than 5.6   Monosodium urate is the predominant form/excreted through the kidneys and gi tract  
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uric acid at pH greater that 6.4   urate is insoluable/forms crystals  
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Uric acid - Gout   pain & inflammation of the joints/found in men 30-50/ deposits of sodium urates in connective tissues, primarily joints  
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Uric acid - Hyperuticemia   overproduction or under excretion f uric acid/increased purine diet or drugs/increased catabolism of nucleic acids of cell nuclei. Found in Chemotherapy  
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Uric acid - Chronic renal disese   problems with filtration and secretion of uric acid/elevate level  
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Lesch-Nyhan syndrome   genetic disorder in males/absences of the enzyme to biosynthesis purines/increase synthesis of purine nucleotides/increased uric acid  
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Hypouricicemia   decreased uric acid result of liver disease and reabsorption defects  
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Caraway method (uric acid analysis)   oxidation of uric acid with reduction of phosphotungetic acid to tungsten blue/ measures development of blue color/ not sprcific  
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Uricase method (uric acid analysis)   catalyzes the oxidation of uric acid to allatoin/ decrease in absorption at 293nm-directly proportional to concentration.  
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Coupled enzyme (uric acid analysis)   decrease in absorbance at 293nm, a peak absorbance for uric acid and 1 at allantoin foes not absorb/peroxidase is a 2nd modification and the most common automated method  
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Specimen requirements for uric acid analysis   serum, plasma, & urine  
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Interfering substances in uric acid analysis   false decrease: high bilirubin levels with peroxidase methods. false elevations: salicytate and thiaziades  
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Ammonia results from   deamination of amino acids in the intestinal tracts and during exercise  
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What happens to ammonia   consumed by the parenchymal cells in the prod of urea, exists in the body as ammonium ion- at body pH/not dependent on renal function/measured to confirm the liver'sability to produce ammonia  
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Ammonia-disease correlation   high concentration: Encephalopathy, Hepatic failure, Reyes syndrome, and inherited deficiencies of the urea cycle enzmes  
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ammonia - analytic methods   Cation-exchange resin, Enzyme assay (mostly used), Ion selecti electrode  
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Ammonia specimen requirements   whole blood levels rapidly increase following collection/ specimen should be: placed immediately on ice, centrifuged at 0-4 degrees within 20 minutes of collection, and assayed or frozen asap  
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Ammona sources of error   must eliminate any source of ammonia contamination: smoking, urine, detergents, drugs containing ammonia  
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ammonia normal ranges   plasma adult: 19-60ml/dl child:68-136ml/dl urine 140-1500mg N/day  
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Kidney function   removal of unwanted substances from the plasma/homeostasis/hormonal regulation  
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What is the functional unit of the Kidney?   Nephron  
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What are the 5 functional parts of Nephron?   glomerulus, proximal convoluted tubule, loop of Henle, distal convoluted tubule, collecting duct  
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What are the 3 basic substances that are secreted   urea, creatinine, and uric acid  
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Clearance measurements: creatinine   used to measure clearance/Creatinine clearance/used to determine GFR  
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Clearance measurements: Estimated GFR   calculation based on serum creatinine, age, body size, gender, race  
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Clearance measurements: Urea   does not provide a full clearance assessment/ only 40% reabsorbed  
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Clearance measurements: urine electrophoresis   distinguish between acute glomerular nephropathy and tubular proteinuria/screen for monoclonal and polyclonal globulins  
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B2-microglobulins   High levels indicate cellular turnover: Myeloproliferative anmphoproliferative, inflammation, and renal failure  
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myoglobulin   early indicator of myoglobulin induced acute renal failure, measured by immunoassay. Too big to go through kidney  
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microalbumin   management of diabetes mellitus patients  
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cystatin C   low molecular protein, produce by nucleated cells, filtered & reabsorbed by glomerulus at a constant rate, assess early changes in kidney function, measured by immunoassay  
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urinalysis   detailed, in depth assessment of kidney function  
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glomerular diseases   disorders or diseases that directly damage the renal glomerulus  
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acute glomerularnephritis   rapid on set of symptoms, hematuria, proteinuria, elevated BUN and creatinine, hyaline and granular casts, associated with strep a  
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chronic glomerularnephritis   end stage of persistent glomerular damage/slight proteinuria and hematuria  
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Nephrotic syndrome   complication of glomerularnephritis or as a result of circulatory disorders that affect blood pressure or blood flow to kidney/proteinuria, hypoalbuminemia, hyperlipidemia, pitting anemia  
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acute pyelonephritis   inflammatory process involving a bacteria infection of the renal rubules by gram- bacteria/usually does not cause permanent damage/common causes: catheterization, urinary obstruction, diabetes  
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chronic pyelonephritis   permanent scarring of the renal tubules, can lead to renal failure/ findings: alkaline pH, bacteria, nocturia, polyuria, decreased specific gravity, proteinuria  
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Cystitis   bladder infection characterized by dysuria/findings: small protein, hematuria, absence of cellular casts  
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tubular disease renal tubular acidosis (RTA)   can occur in distal and proximal convulated tubules  
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urinary tract infections/obstructions   infections in the kidney or bladder,bacterial colony count > 10x 3, bacteruria, hematuria & pyuria/obstruction in upper or lower tract/kidney stones  
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renal failure   acute: sudden/sharp decline in func./acute toxic or hypoxic insult Chronic: kidney disease, slow decline Diabetes Mellitus: decrease function, 45% of patients with Type 1 diabetes renal hypertension decreased perfusion to all or part of the kidney  
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