Assessment of mitochondrial respiratory chain enzymatic activities on tissues and cultured cells

Nature Protocols

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1235-1246

  Spinazzi, Marco ^a   Casarin, Alberto ^b   Pertegato, Vanessa ^b   Salviati, Leonardo ^b   Angelini, Corrado ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b Department of Pediatrics   (Italy)

^c IRCCS SAN CAMILLO HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYTOCHROME C OXIDASE; REDUCED NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE (UBIQUINONE); UBIQUINOL CYTOCHROME C REDUCTASE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ENZYMOLOGY; INSTRUMENTATION; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRION; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOUSE; SKELETAL MUSCLE; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX I; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX II; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX III; ELECTRON TRANSPORT COMPLEX IV; MICE; MITOCHONDRIA; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; SPECTROPHOTOMETRY;

EID: 84865826544     PISSN: 17542189     EISSN: 17502799     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nprot.2012.058     Document Type: Article

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