Clinical laboratory tests for carbohydrates

Abstract

Clinical biochemistry is also known as clinical chemistry/chemical pathology or medical biochemistry. Basically, it is an area of clinical pathology, generally deals with the analysis of body fluids for diagnosis and therapeutic purposes. Clinical biochemistry is an application part of medical biochemistry that deals with methodology and interpretations of clinical (chemical) tests carried out for the diagnosis of disease. It has been reported that carbohydrate metabolism get disturbed in various diseases. Several carbohydrate metabolites and substrate have been used for the diagnosis and prognosis of diseases related to malfunction of carbohydrate metabolism. In the present book chapter we will discuss various carbohydrate tests. Glucose oxidase, ferricyanide, hagedorn and Jensen and Nelson and Somogyi methods will be describe for the estimation of glucose. Other than these methods we will also learn about liver glycogen, starch, a-amylolysis in vitro, anaerobic glycolysis tests and measurement of endogenous respiration. In the present book chapter we will discuss various carbohydrate tests. Glucose oxidase, ferricyanide, hagedorn and Jensen and Nelson and Somogyi methods will be describe for the estimation of glucose. Other than these methods we will also learn about liver glycogen, starch,a- amylolysis in vitro, anaerobic glycolysis tests and measurement of endogenous respiration. ? 2017 Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.