{"id":1546249,"date":"2026-08-20T09:54:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/?page_id=1546249"},"modified":"2026-08-20T09:54:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T07:54:12","slug":"microalbumin-in-cerebrospinal-fluid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/ch-it\/products\/haematology-clin-chemistry-endocrinology\/clinical-chemistry\/substrates\/microalbumin-in-cerebrospinal-fluid\/","title":{"rendered":"Microalbumin (in CSF)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\" id=\"wpb-content-root\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;]<h3 class=\"csc-firstHeader\">Microalbumin (in cerebrospinal fluid)<\/h3><p><span>LABOKLIN Service ID: 85<\/span><\/p><p class=\"bodytext\"><br><ul><li>Microalbumin refers to micro amounts of albumin.<\/li><li>Albumin passes from serum into cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) solely via the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier. Determining the albumin concentration in CSF reflects the integrity of the blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier. A quantitative assessment is made using the albumin quotient (QAlb), calculated from the ratio of CSF albumin [mg\/dl] to serum albumin [g\/dl] in combination with the absolute albumin concentration in CSF (especially in dogs).<\/p><table class=\"tx-laboklinleistung-table contenttable contenttable-2\" style=\"margin-top: 35px;\"><tr><td class=\"td-0\"><strong>Material<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"td-1\"><p class=\"bodytext\">cerebrospinal fluid 0.3 ml<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"td-0\"><strong>Method<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"td-1\"><p class=\"bodytext\">Photometry<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"td-0\"><strong>Species list<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"td-1\"><p class=\"bodytext\">dog, cat<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"td-0\"><strong>Duration<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"td-1\"><p class=\"bodytext\">1\u20132 working days<\/p><\/td><\/tr><tr><td class=\"td-0\"><strong>Remark<\/strong><\/td><td class=\"td-1\"><p class=\"bodytext\"><ul><li>An elevated QAlb indicates increased permeability of the bloodcerebrospinal fluid barrier (e.g. in inflammatory, neoplastic or traumatic CNS diseases).<\/li><li>QAlb concentrations within the reference range indicate an intact blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier.<\/li><li>A valid assessment always requires a combination of CSF albumin, serum albumin and other CSF parameters (protein, cell count).<\/li><\/ul><\/p><\/td><\/tr><\/table>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=&#8221;&#8221;][\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"parent":1421050,"menu_order":12,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"both","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":301,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_seopress_news_disabled":"","_seopress_video_disabled":"","_seopress_video":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas_manual":[],"_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable_all":"","_seopress_pro_rich_snippets_disable":[],"_seopress_pro_schemas":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1546249","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/ch-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1546249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/ch-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/ch-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/ch-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/ch-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1546249"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/ch-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1546249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1546257,"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/ch-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1546249\/revisions\/1546257"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/ch-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1421050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laboklin.com\/ch-it\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1546249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}