Sample Type: Water, buffers, serum, plasma, urine, saliva, tissue Target: Nitric Oxide Method of Analysis: Absorbance Plate Reader Intended Use: Flexible Nitric Oxide Colorimetric Detection BioAssay? Kit offers two assay capabilities. The first assay allows you to quantitatively measure endogenous Nitrite. In the second assay, Nitrate is converted to Nitrite using Nitrate Reductase and Total Nitric Oxide is measured. Nitrate concentration can be calculated by performing both assays. Test Principle: Nitric oxide (NO) is a diffusible, transient, reactive molecule that has physiological effects in the picomolar-to-micromolar range. Acting through soluble guanylate cyclase activation, NO is an important physiological regulator of the cardiovascular, nervous, and immunological systems. NO is bio-available by two routes. It can be endogenously generated by constitutive or induced enzymes like Nitric Oxide Synthase, or it can be orally ingested as nitrates / nitrites for rapid uptake into cir