KROK 1 2018 – Question 19 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
Collagenosis patients typically present with connective tissue destruction processes. The presence of these processes can be confirmed by the increase in:
- A. Blood urates
- B. Blood creatine and creatinine
- C. Blood oxyproline and oxylysine
- D. Transaminase activity in the blood
- E. LDH-isoenzyme activity in the blood
Hint
Ask which breakdown product of the main fibrillar protein of connective tissue would be released into the circulation when that protein is being destroyed.
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