Antioxidant capacity of human blood plasma and human urine: simultaneous evaluation of the ORAC index and ascorbic acid concentration employing pyrogallol red as probe

Bioorg Med Chem. 2008 Oct 15;16(20):9171-5. doi: 10.1016/j.bmc.2008.09.024. Epub 2008 Sep 12.

Abstract

The oxygen radical absorbance capacity (ORAC) methodology has been employed to estimate the antioxidant capacity of human blood plasma and human urine using pyrogallol red (ORAC-PGR) as target molecule. Uric acid, reduced glutathione, human serum albumin, and ascorbic acid (ASC) inhibited the consumption of pyrogallol red, but only ASC generated an induction time. Human blood plasma and human urine protected efficiently pyrogallol red. In these assays, both biological fluids generated neat induction times that were removed by ascorbate oxidase. From these results, ORAC-PGR method could be proposed as a simple alternative to evaluate an ORAC index and, simultaneously, to estimate the concentration of ascorbic acid in human blood plasma or human urine.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Antioxidants / metabolism*
  • Ascorbic Acid / blood*
  • Ascorbic Acid / urine*
  • Glutathione
  • Humans
  • Kinetics
  • Pyrogallol / analogs & derivatives*
  • Pyrogallol / blood
  • Pyrogallol / urine
  • Reactive Oxygen Species / blood*
  • Reactive Oxygen Species / urine*

Substances

  • Antioxidants
  • Reactive Oxygen Species
  • Pyrogallol
  • pyrogallol sulfonphthalein
  • Glutathione
  • Ascorbic Acid