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Trinity Biotech’s ACE kit is designed for use in the kinetic determination of Angiotensin Converting Enzyme activity in serum or plasma. Angiotensin Converting Enzyme (ACE) is a glycoprotein peptidlypeptide hydrolase. Elevated levels of ACE activity occur in serum of patients with active sarcoidosis, and occasionally in premature infants with respiratory distress syndrome, in adults with tuberculosis, leprosy and in many other pathologic conditions involving lung and liver diseases.

Bile Acids are indicators of a liver function. However, the test will not provide a definitive diagnosis of the primary problem, merely an early confirmation that there is a hepatobiliary deficiency. There are a large number of diseases that can compromise hepatobiliary function in a primary or secondary manner.

Oxalate was confirmed as a normal constituent of urine in 1951, but only recently has the significance of calcium oxalate crystalluria and its relationship to urinary tract stone formation been fully recognised. Formation of the sparingly soluble calcium salt of oxalate in the urinary tract is considered the major factor in urolithiasis.

The measurement of serum lipase activity is widely used for the diagnosis of acute pancreatitis.