Glucose (single reagent)

Intended use

Biostep Diagnostic’s liquizyme glucose reagent is intended for the in-vitro quantitative, diagnostics determination of glucose in human serum, plasma, urine and CSF on both manual and automated systems.

Background

Oxidation of glucose present in the peripheral blood represents the major source of cellular energy in the body. Dietary glucose is stored in the liver in the form of glycogen of or converted to fatty acids and stored in the adipose tissue. The accurate estimation of glucose is important in the diagnosis and management of hyperglycemia &hypoglycemia. The most frequent cause of hyperglycemia is diabetes mellitus resulting from a deficiency in insulin secretion or action hypoglycemia may be the result of an insulinoma, insulin administration inborn error of carbohydrate metabolism or fasting.

GLUCOSE: measurement in urine is used as diabetes screening procedure and to aid in the evaluation of glucosuria to detect renal tubular defect and measurement of diabetes mellitus.

GLUCOSE: measurement in cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) is used for evaluation of meningitis, neoplastic involvement of meninges and other neurological disorders.