Table 1 |
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Plasma electrolytes examined in the Munich ENU mouse mutagenesis project |
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| Electrolyte |
Intracellular vs. extracellular level |
Diagnostic impact |
Olympus kit/ISE |
Range (mmol/l)a |
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| Ca |
Very low |
Parathyroidea, bone, kidney |
OSR6176 |
1–4 |
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| Cl |
Low; major anion in plasma |
Osmotic regulation, acid-base status, kidney |
Ion-selective electrode |
50–200 |
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| K |
Major cation, low in plasma |
K+ transport system, acid-base status, kidney |
Ion-selective electrode |
1–10 |
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| Na |
Low; major cation in plasma |
Osmotic regulation, kidney |
Ion-selective electrode |
50–200 |
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| P, inorganic |
Higher in cells |
P uptake, bone, kidney |
OSR6122 |
0.3–6.4 |
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a Linear measurement range (mmol/l) for the Olympus AU400 autoanalyzer (Olympus, Hamburg, Germany) and the reagents for human samples according to the manufacturer. |
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Aigner et al. Journal of Biomedical Science 2009 16:53 doi:10.1186/1423-0127-16-53 |
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