sialate (sialic acid) in serum/plasma

Indications

• evaluation of
  • sialidosis, sialuria
  • Kanzaki disease
  • galactosialidosis
  • mucolipidosis

Reference interval

• 0.52-0.73 g/L or 1.58-2.22 mmol/L

Increases

• sialidosis
• Salla disease (sialuria)
• many others
  • cancer, inflammation, atherosclerosis, diabetes, alcoholism, chronic glomerulonephritis, pneumonia, chronic real failure, chronic liver disease, cadmium toxicity, sympathetic ophthalmitis, idiopathic acute iridocyclitis

More general terms

• sialate (sialic acid) in body fluid

More specific terms

• sialate (sialic acid).lipid bound in serum/plasma

Additional terms

• sialic acid; N-acetyl neuraminic acid (NANA)