Explain the Colorimetric Method Glucose Estimation?
Alkaline copper reduction methods are by far the most commonly used methods for glucose estimation. This time honoured method for glucose estimation dates back to 1920 when Folin and Wu devised a method to estimate ‘sugar' in blood by alkaline copper reduction exploiting the reducing property of glucose. Later Nelson and Somogyi modified this method. Let us then learn about the Nelson Somogyi method for glucose estimation.