Sodium Butyrate

Sodium Butyrate is a chemical compound which is a sodium salt of butyric acid. Its standard name is sodium butyrate, while also called as sodium butanoate. Commonly it is available is amorphous powder, but for more stability the powder is customized in coated granular or noodles form encapsulated with permitted ingredients such as essential oils, glycerol monostearate or maltodextrin etc.

Common grade available and application : It has various effects on cultured mammalian cells including inhibition of proliferation, induction of differentiation and induction or repression of gene expression. As such, it can be used in lab to bring about any of these effects.

General properties :

• Appearance - White to off-white granular powder or granules; Taste is slight sweet, with special cheese rancidity odor
• Identifications - It gives positive reaction for Sodium and Butyrate
• Solubility - Freely soluble in water
• pH - 9.0-12.0 (5% w/v soln)
• Loss on drying/Aqua - Less than 5%
• Heavy metals=Max. 0.005%
• Residual solvents and OVI - Meets the requirement
• Assay - Not less than 98% on dried basis