phosphokinase

Creatine phosphokinase levels are also examined during the blood tests.

Creatine phosphokinase, an enzyme found in humans, or alternatively a blood test for it.

This enzyme is also called dolichol phosphokinase.

Creatine phosphokinase (CPK) levels were normal in both cases.

Other names in common use include ethanolamine kinase (phosphorylating), and ethanolamine phosphokinase.

Elevated creatine phosphokinase indicates neuroleptic malignant syndrome, the degree to which lower levels of apoptosis occur is difficult to measure.

Liver enzymes, specifically creatine phosphokinase (CPK), are the major tool in assessing the progress of the disease and/or the efficacy of treatment.

Certain agents, such as benzodiazapines and calcium channel blockers, are routinely used to mask the signals indicating apoptosis, such as creatine phosphokinase.

It is marked by fever, rigidity, confusion, and autonomic instability, as well as by elevations in white blood cell count, creatinine phosphokinase, and urine myoglobin.

NMS typically consists of muscle rigidity, fever, autonomic instability, and cognitive changes such as delirium, and is associated with elevated plasma creatine phosphokinase.

The diagnosis of muscular dystrophy is based on the results of muscle biopsy, increased creatine phosphokinase (CpK3), electromyography, electrocardiography and DNA analysis.

A raised white blood cell count and creatine phosphokinase (CPK) plasma concentration will be reported due to increased muscular activity and rhabdomyolysis (destruction of muscle tissue).

Patients have increased levels of serum creatine phosphokinase(CPK) which leads to myopathic changes in muscle biopsies resembling Duchenne muscular dystrophy.

Neuroleptic malignant syndrome, a rare complication with haloperidol use, is characterized by hyperthermia, increased mental confusion, leukocytosis, muscular rigidity, myoglobinuria, and high serum creatinine phosphokinase.

Blood tests include a complete blood count for eosinophilia, creatine phosphokinase activity, and various immunoassays such as ELISA for larval antigens.

In mice, by oral injection, the molecule is lethal at 2.5 mg/kg of body mass and poisoning is indicated by an increase in serum creatine phosphokinase activity.

Early in the respiratory phase, elevated creatine phosphokinase levels (as high as 3,000 IU/L) and hepatic transaminases (two to six times the upper limits of normal) have been noted.

Cardiac enzyme studies measure the levels of the enzyme creatine phosphokinase (CPK, CK) and the protein troponin (TnI, TnT) in the blood.

Phosphocreatine is stored as a readily available high-energy phosphate supply, and the enzyme creatine phosphokinase transfers a phosphate from phosphocreatine to ADP to produce ATP.

Like measured creatine phosphokinase levels results from the muscle biopsy characteristic of TM typically show normal to severe fiber degradation with respective indications to the severity of TM progression.

Everyone taking a statin drug should have regular liver function tests (six weeks after starting the drug, then every four to six months) and a periodic test for muscle breakdown called CPK (for creatine phosphokinase).

Though fairly active, its swimming muscles exhibit lower activity of glycolytic enzymes and higher activity of creatine phosphokinase compared to the shallow-water spiny dogfish (Squalus acanthias), suggesting a lesser capacity for bursts of speed.

For assay of plasma creatin phosphokinase (CPK), hEndostatin, and mhATF-BPTI, mice were anaesthetised with isoflurane, bled by tail vein cut and the blood was collected in EDTA tubes.

The most common side effects were elevated CPK (creatinine phosphokinase, an enzyme that is present in muscle tissue and is a marker for breakdown of muscle tissue), upper respiratory tract infection, fatigue, headache, abdominal pain and cough.

In 1931, he collaborated with Keilin and Hill to determine the first absorption spectrum of a cytochrome, cytochrome c. Dixon studied the chemistry of lachrymators and mustard gas and proposed a phosphokinase theory to explain their mode of action.