Can I use the Soxhlet extraction method for this?
If yes, how do I go about it?
Hi,
do you need the body fat for further experiments? Otherwise the fastest, non-invasive method to measure body fat, lean, and fluids would be NMR-based, like Brukers minispec.
I agree completely. The fastest non-invasive means to measure fat mass is to use qNMR. We depended on the Echo system for years. There are caveats; fat mass is very accurate, but lean mass includes all soft tissue organs, not just muscle. Total body water was an unreliable measure for us. Other methods were better. You will find that adding all of these parameters together does not equal 100% as the skeleton is not included in that calculation.
An image measurement may be the X ray absortionmetry. See the following article
Ann Nutr Metab. 2010;56(3):198-206. doi: 10.1159/000276596. Epub 2010 Mar 4.
Circulating very-low-density lipoprotein characteristics resulting from fatty liver in an insulin resistance rat model.
Zago V1, Lucero D, Macri EV, Cacciagiú L, Gamba CA, Miksztowicz V, Berg G, Wikinski R, Friedman S, Schreier L.
It is as full text in PUBMED and also in my profile contributions in Research Gate
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