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alkaline phosphatase, blood test that measures the amount, the enzyme alp, alkaline phosphatase, blood is drawn, a vein, a capillary on the heel, finger, toe, earlobe, laboratory centrifuges the blood to separate the serum, cells, alp test, on the serum, fast, 6 hours, advise to discontinue drugs, affect the test, antibiotics, narcotics, methyldopa, propranolol, cortisone, allopurinol, tricyclic antidepressants, chlorpromazine, oral contraceptives, birth control pills, anti-inflammatory analgesics, androgens, tranquilizers, antiarthritic drugs, oral antidiabetic drugs, alkaline phosphatase, enzyme found in all tissues, tissues, particularly high concentrations of alp include the liver, bile ducts, placenta, bone, diseased tissue releases enzymes, blood, serum alp measurements, abnormal in many conditions, bone disease, liver disease, serum alp is also increased, normal circumstances, normal bone growth, in response to a variety of drugs, multiple varieties of alp, isoenzymes, different types of isoenzymes, each, different structures, found in different tissues, liver, bone alp isoenzymes have different structures, quantified separately, in the laboratory, to differentiate the location of damaged, diseased tissue, alp isoenzyme testing must be done, normal range is 44 to 147 iu/l, international units per liter, normal values, from laboratory to laboratory, gender, higher-than-normal alp levels, anemia, biliary obstruction, bone disease, healing fracture, hepatitis, hyperparathyroidism, leukemia, liver diseases, osteoblastic bone cancers, osteomalacia, paget's disease, rickets, lower-than-normal alp levels, hypophosphatasemia, malnutrition, protein deficiency, additional conditions under which the test performed, alcoholic liver disease, hepatitis/cirrhosis, alcoholism, biliary stricture, giant cell, temporal, cranial, arteritis, multiple endocrine neoplasia, men, ii, renal cell carcinoma alp levels, gender, young children experiencing rapid growth, pregnant women to have high levels of alp.