| Description: | Lactate dehydrogenase(LDH) is an enzyme that presents in almost cell types and it catalyzes the oxidation of lactate to pyruvate in the presence of co-enzyme NAD+. Once cells are impaired by stress, injuries, chemicals, or intercellular signals, LDH is rapidly released from the cell membrane. Thus, the measurement of the amount of released LDH from cells is one of the major methods to assess the cell death. Since Dojindo�s Cytotoxicity LDH Assay Kit-WST neither reflects the activity of living cells nor is harmful to cells, it allows the assay to perform in wells containing both viable and damaged cells. |
