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c/hplc·posted 1 year ago by u/honest_syringe_pls

my ApoB moved and I cannot work out whether method development is why

Correction Clean Column ×7 Long Haul ×3

gradient. That is the whole post, but I will justify it.

Everything else people worry about in c/dosinglogs is downstream of it. Titration speed, muscle cramps, the endless dose arguments — most of it resolves if you sort gradient out first, and almost nobody does.

I say this having got it wrong for 23 months. My triglycerides was the thing that eventually made me pay attention, which is a stupid way to learn a lesson that was in the sidebar the whole time.

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u/valeria_cardoso-28 points·1 year ago
genuinely useful, thanks
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u/medutest_mel128 points·1 year ago

Crossposting this to c/glp1eu because the people who need it are not reading this community.

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u/honest_syringe_plsOP151 points·1 year ago

state the method: column, gradient, detection wavelength, injection volume

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u/zeynep_zielinski71 points·1 year ago

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

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u/honest_syringe_plsOP103 points·1 year ago

Detection wavelength? purity and that changes at different wavelengths.

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u/honest_syringe_plsOP59 points·1 year ago

Detection wavelength?

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 75 weeks to accept.

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u/egfr_watcher32 points·1 year ago

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

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u/salma_vasquez15 points·1 year ago

related substances are where the story lives, not the main peak

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u/andres_restrepo6 points·1 year ago

the detector wavelength matters more than people think

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u/mass_spec_maggieMOD49 points·1 year ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes. Please contact a clinician rather than waiting for replies.

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u/matias_salgado31 points·1 year ago

This is an urgent-care question wearing a forum question's clothes.

Yes, exactly this, and it is the bit that took me 80 weeks to accept.

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u/insulin_syringe_ian34 points·1 year ago

You have restated the marketing copy. What is the actual substance here.

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u/valeria_cardoso18 points·1 year ago

Disagree. What you are describing is consistent with gradient, not with what you concluded.

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u/rania_okonkwo8 points·1 year ago·edited

Small correction: the trial was 23 weeks, not 27. Does not change your point but people will quote it.

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u/fatima_yildiz4 points·1 year ago

Did they post the raw trace or just the summary?

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u/hydration_hank9 points·1 year ago

chromatogram or it did not happen

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u/dilara_nyberg4 points·1 year ago

related substances are where the story lives, not the main peak

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u/enzo_petrescu20 points·1 year ago

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

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u/hugo_bergstrom18 points·1 year ago

Dead space in the needle hub holds a small but non-trivial volume. On low-volume draws that can be several units.

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u/clara_danquah25 points·1 year ago

axis labels included, always

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u/week_four_wall5 points·1 year ago

Dead space in the needle hub holds a small but non-trivial volume.

Adding to this: LC-MS is doing more work than the comment implies.

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u/freya_baptista2 points·1 year ago

related substances are where the story lives, not the main peak

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