To measure the collagenase inhibitory activity, a weight of 1 mg of azo dye-impregnated collagen was mixed with 800 μL of 0.1 M Tris-HCl (pH 7.0), 100 μL of 200 units/mL collagenase (stock solution), and 100 μL sample and incubated at 43 °C for 1 h under shaking condition. Subsequently, the reaction mixture was centrifuged at 3000 rpm for 10 min and the absorbance of the supernatant was detected at 550 nm in a microplate reader (BioTek Synergy HT, Woburn, MA, USA).
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