Myristic acid (MA, C14:0), also known as tetradecanoic acid, is a saturated fatty acid derived from nutmeg. Myristic acid has excellent antibacterial properties and is often used to treat deficiency diarrhea, cold diarrhea, bloating and abdominal pain, indigestion, and other symptoms. In animal tissues, myristic acid is usually only a small part of the total fatty acid content, however, it is more abundant in milk fat, coconut meat and palm oil.
In industry, myristic acid is mainly used as a raw material for the production of surfactants, for the production of sorbitan fatty acid esters, glycerol fatty acid esters, ethylene glycol or propylene glycol fatty acid esters. It is also used in the production of isopropyl myristate, etc.
Creative Proteomics uses high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC), liquid-mass spectrometry (LC-MS), and gas-mass spectrometry (GC-MS) techniques to efficiently and accurately detect changes in myristic acid content. In addition, we also provide other fatty acid assay services to meet your different needs.
Service Workflow
We Can Provide Analysis for The Following Substances, Including but Not Limited to
| Myristic acid | Isopropyl myristate | Methyl myristate | Ethyl myristate |
| Octyldodecyl myristate | Isocetyl myristate | | |
Sample Requirements
We analyze a wide range of biological materials and can also accept industrial samples.
- Serum / plasma: ≥ 100 ul/sample
- Animal tissue: ≥ 100 mg/sample
- Cell: ≥ 1×107
- Plant samples: ≥ 200 mg
- Foods dry weight: ≥ 200 mg
- Others
Want to analyze other samples? Please contact our technical staff.
Deliverables
- Experimental protocols
- Instrument parameters
- MS raw data files and MS data quality checks
- Absolute quantitative data of myristic acid
- Bioinformatics analysis report
If you want to test other fatty acids or have other questions, please contact us and we will be happy to answer them for you. We look forward to working with you.
For Research Use Only. Not for use in diagnostic procedures.
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