METHOD OF DETERMINING ANTI-OXIDANT ACTIVITY OF ESSENTIAL OIL OF VEGETABLE ORIGIN in vitro Russian patent published in 2014 - IPC G01N33/15 

FIELD: medicine.

SUBSTANCE: method consists in the application of glutationreductase and catalase enzymes as test-objects for determination of the anti-oxidant activity by the ratio of the rate of enzymatic reaction on the test-object after the substance addition and the rate of enzymatic reaction before the substance addition, which must be larger than 1. Preliminarily, before addition to an incubation medium, the samples of essential oil of Siberian fir are diluted with dimethylsulphoxide in a ratio of 1:1.

EFFECT: increased accuracy of determination.

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