Canvax Biotech
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Canvax is a leading manufacturer and supplier of the most innovative solutions, kits and R&D Reagents inside Molecular Biology fields. Since its foundation in 2001, Canvax offers reliable, cost-effective and easy-to-use innovative tools for research. Based in Córdoba (Spain), since its beginning it has focused on R&D of multiplex high throughput platforms (HTS) for Drug discovery and Diagnostic applied biosensors. Over a decade later, Canvax is a worldwide leading expert in GPCR expression in heterologous cells, with important patents and exclusive know-how. Canvax prides itself to be the first company to get an unprecedented milestone that could revolutionize the Diagnostics sector: Canvax established stable high-level expression of odour GPCRs into heterologous cell lines in 2014. This key milestone, that could be applied in diagnostic, perfume and cosmetic industry, are being employed to obtain a molecular nose, a sensitive and non-invasive diagnostic molecular device for early detection of cancer, as the nose of trained dogs do. Thanks to this project, Canvax was awarded, in 2013, with the largest Public & Private Contract for Pre competitive Technology Development in Spanish history. Website : www.lifescience.canvaxbiotech.com | ||
Assay kits - Oxidative stress
Oxidative stress is a state when the normal reduced environment of a cell changes due to the accumulation of reactive oxygen species (ROS). These ROS like peroxides, superoxides and free radicals can cause pathological changes in the cell due to DNA damage, oxidation of amino acids, proteins, polyunsaturated fatty acids and enzyme cofacors which subsequently causes cell death due to apoptosis or necrosis.
The antioxidant enzymes within cells like catalase, superoxide dismutase (SOD), lactoperoxidases and glutathione peroxidase inhibit the production of such free radicals and thus protect cells in order to maintain the balance.
