Spectrophotometric assay for superoxide dismutase based on the reduction of highly water-soluble tetrazolium salts by xanthine-xanthine oxidase

Bioscience, Biotechnology and Biochemistry

Volumn 63, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 485-488

  Ukeda, Hiroyuki ^a   Kawana, Daisuke ^a   Maeda, Susumu ^a   Sawamura, Masayoshi ^a  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Assay; Superoxide dismutase; Water soluble tetrazolium; WST; Xanthine oxidase

Indexed keywords

EID: 0001754396     PISSN: 09168451     EISSN: 13476947     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1271/bbb.63.485     Document Type: Article

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