Visual Detection of Cysteine and Homocysteine

Journal of the American Chemical Society

Volumn 126, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 438-439

  Rusin, Oleksandr ^a   St Luce, Nadia N ^a   Agbaria, Rezik A ^a   Escobedo, Jorge O ^a   Jiang, Shan ^a   Warner, Isiah M ^a   Dawan, Fareed B ^a   Lian, Kun ^a   Strongin, Robert M ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYSTEINE; HOMOCYSTEINE; XANTHENE;

ABSORPTION; ARTICLE; COLORIMETRY; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; REACTION ANALYSIS; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY; ULTRAVIOLET SPECTROSCOPY;

COLORIMETRY; COLORING AGENTS; CYSTEINE; FLUOROMETRY; HOMOCYSTEINE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY, ULTRAVIOLET; XANTHENES;

EID: 0346456896     PISSN: 00027863     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ja036297t     Document Type: Article

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