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- Alan Heath1,
- Zachary Shriver2,
- Fabian Jameison3,
- Ali Al Hakim4,
- Tina S. Morris3 &
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- Anita Y. Szajek3
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Abbreviations
- BST:
Broad standard table
- FDA:
Food and Drug Administration
- HP:
Heparin sodium drug product
- Mn :
Number-average molecular weight
- Mp :
Peak molecular weight
- Mw :
Weight-average molecular weight
- MW:
Molecular weight
- RSD:
Relative standard deviation
- SD:
Standard deviation
- SEC:
Size-exclusion chromatography
- USP:
United States Pharmacopeia
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Acknowledgments
The participants in both stages of the study are acknowledged with gratitude. They are I. Capila and J. Glajch (Momenta Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, USA), E. K. Chess and W. Wasylenko (Baxter Healthcare, Round Lake, IL, USA), Huihong Fan (NICPBP, Beijing, China), D. Fulchiron (Bay Bioanalytical Laboratories, Hercules, CA, USA), L. Rao and Y. Wang (Scientific Protein Laboratories, Wanaukee, WI, USA), S. Bertini and G. Torri (Istituto Ronzoni, Milan, Italy), W. Jeske (Loyola University, Maywood, IL, USA), C. S. Venkatesan (Gland Pharma, Hyderabad, India), R. van Herpen (Aspen, Oss, The Netherlands), P. Torralba (APP, Skokie, IL, USA), S. O. Herr (Leo Pharma, Ballerup, Denmark), H. Chen (Sepax Technologies, Newark, DE, USA), J. Oman (Pfizer, Franklin, OH, USA), R. Van Gorp (Celsus Laboratories, Cincinnati, OH, USA), Z. Xiang (Changzhou Qianhong Biopharm, Changzhou City, China), Hao Meixia (Yantai Dongcheng Biochemicals, Yantai, China), H. Stefan-Hinrichs (Sandoz, Kundl, Austria), Li Tan (Shenzhen Hepalink Pharmaceutical, Shenzhen, China), L. Liverani (Opocrin, Corlo di Formigine, Italy), J. Cabañas (Bioiberica, Palafolls, Spain), Yu-juan Song and Huihong Fan (NIFDC, Beijing, China), R. Yin (Chongqing Imperial Biochem, Chongqing, China), G. Gratzl (Boehringer Ingelheim, Ben Vue Laboratories, Bedford, OH, USA), and C. Martinez and P. Anger (Sanofi-Aventis, Aramon, France). Members of the USP Unfractionated Heparin Expert Panel (W. E. Workman, E. Chess, E. Gray, F. Huihong, K. Johansen,P. Torralba and C. Viskov) are thanked for fruitful discussions.
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Mulloy, B., Heath, A., Shriver, Z.et al. USP compendial methods for analysis of heparin: chromatographic determination of molecular weight distributions for heparin sodium.Anal Bioanal Chem406, 4815–4823 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00216-014-7940-3
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