Is MDA the best marker to indicate oxidative stress in the body?
It is certainly the best because the cost to measure it is low, and because MDA causes the breakdown of DNA. Question on the difficulty to measure oxidant products in biological samples, from a researcher at Washington University in ST Louis. There is a constant low level of MDA production from all subjects. We consider this level the zero point that we measure from. Also, the fact that MDA levels can be, and have been reduced with added antioxidants to an antioxidant deficient diet shows a clinical application for the free radical test. Your researcher needs to define TBA reactive material.
