A simple assay for measuring catalase activity: A visual approach

Scientific Reports

Volumn 3, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Iwase, Tadayuki ^a   Tajima, Akiko ^a   Sugimoto, Shinya ^a   Okuda, Ken Ichi ^a   Hironaka, Ippei ^a   Kamata, Yuko ^a   Takada, Koji ^a   Mizunoe, Yoshimitsu ^a  

^a JIKEI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CATALASE;

CELL LINE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ASSAY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES;

CATALASE; CELL LINE; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME ASSAYS; HUMANS;

EID: 84887005475     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/srep03081     Document Type: Article

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