KROK 1 2019 – Question 49 · KROK (Medicine) · Biological Chemistry
Collagenosis patients typically present with the processes of connective tissue destruction. The presence of these processes can be confirmed by the increase in:
- A. Blood urates
- B. LDH-isoenzyme activity in the blood
- C. Blood creatine and creatinine
- D. Blood oxyproline and oxylysine
- E. Transaminase activity in the blood
Hint
Ask which circulating substance is specific to breakdown of the main fibrous protein of connective tissue rather than of other organs.
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