Can I use food grade BHT standard for my TBARS assay?

07 March 2022 1 7K Report

I will be conducting the TBARS asay and it says to use BHT as the positive control. However, upon checking primary and secondary reference standards of BHT is too expensive. Can I use a food grade standard instead?

Shail K Chaube

I would not suggest you to use the food grade BHT standard for your TBARS assay since the purity of BHT as a positive control is one of the concerns. If you are not in position to afford BHT (high purity grade; analytical standard), you can follow the protocol published in Methods in Enzymology, Volume 52, 1978, Pages 302-310. The link is given below:

Microsomal lipid peroxidation. Article Microsomal Lipid Peroxidation

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