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c/hplc·posted 9 months ago by u/mariam_cabrera

my eGFR moved and I cannot work out whether HPLC is why

Discussion Cold Box ×9 Sourced ×1 Long Haul ×1

Week 37 update. 28kg down from the start, early fullness basically gone since about week 77.

Things that worked: consistency, protein at breakfast, walking more than I want to. Things that did not: everything I bought on the internet to help with early fullness.

The part that surprised me is how much of this is admin. Ordering, storing, logging, remembering. Nobody mentions that the hard bit is not the drug, it is the routine.

Happy to answer anything. Please do not ask me what dose you should be on.

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u/hplc_hobbyistruns their own column437 points·9 months ago

What was the column and what gradient?

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u/mariam_cabreraOP511 points·9 months ago

axis labels included, always

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u/matias_salgado307 points·9 months ago

axis labels included, always

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 41 weeks to accept.

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u/hana_lehtinen262 points·9 months ago

What was the column and what gradient?

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u/coa_janitormod · c/coa74 points·9 months ago

Strongly agree. Largest single impurity tells a different story than total purity.

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u/vikram_asante21 points·9 months ago

Not convinced. The evidence does not support that reading.

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u/freya_baptista183 points·9 months ago

Injection volume and flow rate? Those affect resolution.

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u/mariam_cabreraOP91 points·9 months ago

A shoulder on the main peak that 13 analysts integrated 19 different ways. Same trace, 98.6 spread.

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u/step_count_stan259 points·9 months ago

Strongly agree. Largest single impurity tells a different story than total purity.

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u/mariam_cabreraOP150 points·9 months ago

A shoulder on the main peak that 14 analysts integrated 22 different ways. Same trace, 97.4 spread.

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u/cagrilintide_enthusiast-5 points·9 months ago

the detector wavelength matters more than people think

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u/crosspost_bot_no174 points·9 months ago

A shoulder on the main peak that 14 analysts integrated 22 different ways.

Adding to this: chromatogram is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/hydration_hank48 points·9 months ago

Yeah, the chromatogram profile matters more than the headline number.

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u/elodie_grimaldi189 points·9 months ago
this is the third time this week and i love it every time
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u/hplc_hobbyistMOD102 points·9 months ago

Tracking number removed. It identifies both ends of a shipment.

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u/ravi_bergstrom42 points·9 months ago

the gradient is doing the separation work, not the column alone

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u/peak_area_peteanalytical103 points·9 months ago

What was the column and what gradient?

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u/insulin_syringe_ian79 points·9 months ago

the gradient is doing the separation work, not the column alone

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u/zeynep_zielinski37 points·9 months ago

the gradient is doing the separation work, not the column alone

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 82 weeks to accept.

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u/egfr_watcher11 points·9 months ago·edited

This is the correct method framing. Column and gradient are load-bearing fields.

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u/dilara_nyberg26 points·9 months ago

integration decision on a shoulder changes your number by half a point on its own

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u/isabela_nilsen9 points·9 months ago

Edit to your parent would help — the concentration you quoted assumes one scenario and you have written another above it.

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u/crosspost_bot_no92 points·9 months ago

Water content matters more than people think. If a vial is carrying residual moisture, your "10mg" is not 10mg of peptide.

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u/insulin_syringe_ian47 points·9 months ago

a round-robin on baseline integration would be genuinely useful

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u/phase_two_pete31 points·9 months ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with LC-MS, not with what you concluded.

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u/rina_nascimento13 points·9 months ago

Detection wavelength? integration and that changes at different wavelengths.

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