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Formazans

Known as: Formazans [Chemical/Ingredient] 
Colored azo compounds formed by the reduction of tetrazolium salts. Employing this reaction, oxidoreductase activity can be determined quantitatively… 
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1,3,5-triphenylformazan1,5-diphenylformazanMTT formazannitroblue formazan

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Review
2018
Review
2018
Tetrazolium salts and formazan products in Cell Biology: Viability assessment, fluorescence imaging, and labeling perspectives.
Review
2005
Review
2005
Tetrazolium dyes as tools in cell biology: new insights into their cellular reduction.
Highly Cited
2002
Highly Cited
2002
Mitochondrial and nonmitochondrial reduction of MTT: interaction of MTT with TMRE, JC-1, and NAO mitochondrial fluorescent probes.
BACKGROUND Bioreduction of water-soluble tetrazolium salts (e.g., MTS, XTT, and MTT) to their respective formazans is generally… 
Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Spectrophotometric Assay for Superoxide Dismutase Based on the Reduction of Highly Water-soluble Tetrazolium Salts by Xanthine-Xanthine Oxidase.
Two novel highly water-soluble tetrazolium salts, WST-1 (4-[3-(4-iodophenyl)-2-(4-nitrophenyl)-2H-5-tetrazolio]-1,3-benzene… 
Highly Cited
1986
Highly Cited
1986
Consequences of cadmium toxicity in rat hepatocytes: mitochondrial dysfunction and lipid peroxidation.
Review
1976
Review
1976
Tetrazolium salts and formazans.
  • F. P. Altman
  • Progress in Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
  • 1976
  • Corpus ID: 146976
Highly Cited
1972
Highly Cited
1972
NONOSMIOPHILIC TETRAZOLIUM SALTS THAT YIELD OSMIOPHILIC, LIPOPHOBIC FORMAZANS FOR ULTRASTRUCTURAL LOCALIZATION OF DEHYDROGENASE ACTIVITY
Monotetrazolium salts were designed and prepared which incorporate a phthalhydrazide moiety to make them lipophobic and a… 
Highly Cited
1965
Highly Cited
1965
Electron cytochemical studies of succinic dehydrogenase and dihydronicotinamide-adenine dinucleotide diaphorase activities.
Highly Cited
1960
Highly Cited
1960
A colorimetric method for the estimation of succinic dehydrogenase activity.
Highly Cited
1957
Highly Cited
1957
INTRACELLULAR LOCALISATION OF DEHYDROGENASE SYSTEMS USING MONOTETRAZOLIUM SALTS AND METAL CHELATION OF THEIR FORMAZANS
  • A. Pearse
  • Journal of Histochemistry and Cytochemistry
  • 1957
  • Corpus ID: 36261738
1) A method is proposed for the demonstrations of dehydrogenases and diaphorases using the principle of simultaneous chelation of… 
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