A New Method for Quantitation of Spin Concentration by EPR Spectroscopy: Application to Methemoglobin and Metmyoglobin

Journal of Magnetic Resonance

Volumn 142, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 266-275

  Svistunenko, Dimitri A ^a   Sharpe, Martyn A ^b   Nicholls, Peter ^a   Wilson, Michael T ^a   Cooper, Chris E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Alkaline metHb; Alkaline metMb; EPR; Hemichrome; Hemoglobin; High spin heme; Low spin heme; MetHb; Methemoglobin; MetMb; Metmyoglobin; Myoglobin; Quantitation

Indexed keywords

HEME; METHEMOGLOBIN; METMYOGLOBIN;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE; HORSE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ELECTRON SPIN RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; HEME; HORSES; HUMANS; METHEMOGLOBIN; METMYOGLOBIN;

EID: 0034132411     PISSN: 10907807     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmre.1999.1935     Document Type: Article

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