Bilirubin is a bile pigment. It is mainly derived from breakdown of hemoglobin in red blood cells (RBCs). Hemoglobin is the molecule in RBCs that carries oxygen. Bilirubin normally circulates in the blood attached to a molecule of the protein albumin. There, it exists in two forms: conjugated (direct) and unconjugated (indirect). Bilirubin dicluguronide, the [...]
In an ongoing series, MyPetsDoctor.com has informed you about laboratory tests your pet is likely to have performed as routine screening tests, as preoperative tests, and as tests designed to diagnose illness. Today we’re going to look at tests commonly performed on urine. The most basic is urinalysis, which is performed in two parts. First, let’s [...]
In our ongoing series about how and why your pet’s doctor chooses laboratory tests, and what the results mean, we continue our look at the Chemistry Profile. Glucose. Everybody knows glucose. It’s also known as blood sugar. Problems can occur when it’s too high or too low. Rarely is low glucose, hypoglycemia, a problem in [...]
In the last edition of “At The Laboratory With My Pet’s Doctor”, we studied the details of the Complete Blood Count. Today, and tomorrow, we will look at a battery of tests called the “Chemistry Profile“. In the Complete Blood Count, we were examining physical bodies, tiny little cells that circulate in the bloodstream. With the [...]
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