Calculate the Sigma value for sodium given that the total allowable error is 12%, the bias is 0.9%, and the CV is 2%.

What kind of quality control is important in maintaining long term accuracy of the analytical methods?

Used to calibrate pH meter:

Which wavelength would be absorbed strongly by a red-colored solution?

Used with techniques such as spectrophotometry to zero the instrument before measuring test samples and other blanks.

This is the most widely used quality control chart in the clinical laboratory.

Which of the following would not be a typical methodology for a clinical chemistry test?

How should a laboratory verify the reference range it uses for a particular test?

A value of 11.2 μg/dL thyroxine is equivalent to _________ in SI units.

The glycated hemoglobin value represents the blood glucose value during the preceding:

Apolipoprotein B-100 is the primary component of:

According to the NCEP Guidelines for Acceptable Measurement Error, the coefficient of variation for HDL cholesterol should be on what range?

This is considered as a one-step method for cholesterol determination:

Cholesterol esterase is used in which method/s for cholesterol determination?

LDL can be calculated from measurements of the following except _________ by the Friedewald formula:

Which method for the assay of uric acid is simple and nonspecific?

This condition shows a beta-gamma bridging effect as the serum protein electrophoretic pattern.

In hemolytic disease of the newborn, which form of bilirubin is elevated in plasma?

Creatine kinase is under what enzyme category?

For each degree of fever in the patient, pO2 will fall _________& and pCO2 will rise _________%.

Confirmatory test for acromegaly:

In individual with hyperthyroidism will manifest _________ triglyceride levels.

Colligative properties include all the following, EXCEPT:

Beer’s law states that the concentration of a substance is (1) ____ proportional to the amount of light absorbed or (2) ____ proportional to the logarithm of the transmitted light:

The more light absorbed, the higher the concentration of analyte in this technique of measuring the amount of light absorbed by a solution:

Reflectance spectrometry uses which of the following?

The process by which fluorescence of an analyte is reduced due to the excited molecule losing some of its energy by interacting with other substances in solution is known as:

In chemical reaction, the amount of product formed is measured at specific intervals during a specific period and then related to the concentration of analyte in the unknown. This type of measurement is known as:

Indicator of nutrition, binds thyroid hormones and retinol (vitamin A) binding protein:

Variants demonstrate a wide variety of cellular interactions, including roles in cell adhesion, tissue differentiation, growth, and wound healing:

Biochemical marker of bone resorption that can be detected in serum and urine:

The term describing patients who are chronically calorie malnourished and lose both adipose and muscle tissue, but who do not demonstrate a protein deficiency, is:

Prerenal azotemia is caused by:

Azotomia due to obstruction of urine flow anywhere in the urinary tract by renal calculi, tumors of the bladder or prostate, or severe infection:

When plasma creatinine concentration is elevated, GFR is ____, indicating renal damage:

A complete deficiency of hypoxanthine guanine phosphoribosyltransferase results in which disease?

When measuring ammonia blood levels, which of the following might cause a false increase in this analyte?

One international unit (IU) of enzyme activity is the amount of enzyme that under specified reaction conditions of substrate concentration, pH and temperature, cause usage of substrate at the rate of:

Catalyzes the joining of two substrate molecules, coupled with breaking of the pyrophosphate bond in adenosine triphosphate (ATP) or a similar compound:

In the Bowers and McComb method for determining alkaline phosphatase activity, the substrate used is:

It is a sensitive test for cholestasis caused by chronic alcohol or drug ingestion:

A specimen is appropriate for glucose analysis if serum or plasma is separated from the cells within ____ minutes.

Dubowski method for glucose utilizes:

C-peptide is formed during the conversion of pro-insulin to insulin. The amount of circulating C-peptide provides reliable indicators for pancreatic and insulin secretions (beta cell function). It is increased in:

Abnormal lipoprotein present in patients with biliary cirrhosis or cholestasis and in patients with mutation in lecithin: cholesterol acyltransferase (LCAT):

Triglyceride levels, as chylomicrons, peak in the blood ____ hours after ingestion of a meal.

When TAG and LDL-c are being measured, fasting becomes a requirement. Require fasting of patients:

Friedewald Formula (FF) is not valid for triglycerides over ____ mg/dL

Electrolytes essential for myocardial rhythm and contractility: