Hello Hani!Are you able to measure liver triglyceride content...

protocol Protocol: Measurement of Liver Triglyceride Content
Hello Hani!

Are you able to measure liver triglyceride content using a triglyceride kit that is used for serum/plasma? If not, please provide an explanation.
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Hani Jouihan Author Answered Aug 14, 2013

Division of Endocrinology, Gerontology and Metabolism, Stanford University School of Medicine, USA

Hi Bronson
A short answer is; No, I have not used serum TG kit to measure the liver TG.
However, since TG should be the same regardless of the origin, I won't be surprised to see that you can use the serum kit with liver sample. The only trick here would be the way you are going to extract the TG from liver. So, if you decide to process the liver to extract the TG, make a serial dilution of this extract and test them all at once. This is important since liver might have way more TG than normally found in serum and the kit dynamic detection range might not detect very hi TG levels. Therefore, by diluting your extracts (1:2, 1:5, 1:10...ect) you might get it to work.
Good luck
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