What is the difference between a COX inhibitor screening assay kit and a COX activity assay kit?

20 November 2015 1 4K Report

I am trying to work out the COX inhibition activity within blood samples of an NSAID and a functional food.

Which assay would be best to assess this?

Can anyone explain the difference between the 2 assays?

https://www.caymanchem.com/pdfs/560131.pdf

http://www.abcam.com/ps/products/139/ab139432/documents/ab139432%20Cyclooxygenase%20(COX)%20Activity%20Assay%20Kitv1%20(website).pdf

Terun Desai

Yes it was helpful.

However, if I don't know whether my blood samples contain the COX enzyme, should I still use the COX activity assay kit?

As the first assay contains COX, how will I be able to find out whether my samples contained COX in the first instance, and in what quantities?

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