Assaying mitochondrial respiratory complex activity in mitochondria isolated from human cells and tissues

Methods in Cell Biology

Volumn , Issue 65, 2001, Pages 97-117

  Birch Machin, Mark A ^a   Turnbull, Douglass M ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; DETERGENT; DODECYL MALTOSIDE; GLUCOSIDE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEX; OXIDOREDUCTASE; PROTEIN SUBUNIT; PROTON PUMP; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); TISSUE EXTRACT; UBIQUINOL CYTOCHROME C REDUCTASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOASSAY; CELL CULTURE; CELL FRACTIONATION; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYMOLOGY; FIBROBLAST; HUMAN; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANE; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; MUSCLE MITOCHONDRION; OXIDATION REDUCTION REACTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; CELL FRACTIONATION; CELLS, CULTURED; DETERGENTS; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX I; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX II; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX III; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; FIBROBLASTS; GLUCOSIDES; HUMANS; INTRACELLULAR MEMBRANES; MITOCHONDRIA; MITOCHONDRIA, MUSCLE; MULTIENZYME COMPLEXES; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NADH, NADPH OXIDOREDUCTASES; OXIDATION-REDUCTION; OXIDOREDUCTASES; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; PROTON PUMPS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; TISSUE EXTRACTS;

EID: 0035231595     PISSN: 0091679X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/s0091-679x(01)65006-4     Document Type: Article

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