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ReviewMedicina (Kaunas, Lithuania)2019

Tools for the Quality Control of Pharmaceutical Heparin.

Anthony Devlin, Courtney Mycroft-West, Patricia Procter, Lynsay Cooper, Scott Guimond, Marcelo Lima, Edwin Yates, Mark Skidmore

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In one paragraph

Review in Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
5citing papers in PubMed
0.2field-weighted citation impact, top 47% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Anthony DevlinMolecular & Structural Biosciences, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Huxley Building, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. a.devlin1@keele.ac.uk.
Courtney Mycroft-WestMolecular & Structural Biosciences, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Huxley Building, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. c.j.mycroft-west@keele.ac.uk.
Patricia ProcterMolecular & Structural Biosciences, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Huxley Building, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. p.procter@keele.ac.uk.
Lynsay CooperMolecular & Structural Biosciences, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Huxley Building, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. l.c.cooper@keele.ac.uk.
Scott GuimondInstitute for Science and Technology in Medicine, Keele University, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. s.e.guimond@keele.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-5903-418X
Marcelo LimaMolecular & Structural Biosciences, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Huxley Building, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. m.andrade.de.lima@keele.ac.uk.
Edwin YatesMolecular & Structural Biosciences, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Huxley Building, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. eayates@liv.ac.uk.
Mark SkidmoreMolecular & Structural Biosciences, School of Life Sciences, Keele University, Huxley Building, Keele, Staffordshire ST5 5BG, UK. m.a.skidmore@keele.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-0287-5594
Keele University · GBUniversity of Liverpool · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/L023717/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/M019209/1Medical Research Council MR/J012246/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Heparin is a vital pharmaceutical anticoagulant drug and remains one of the few naturally sourced pharmaceutical agents used clinically. Heparin possesses a structural order with up to four levels of complexity. These levels are subject to change based on the animal or even tissue sources that they are extracted from, while higher levels are believed to be entirely dynamic and a product of their surrounding environments, including bound proteins and associated cations. In 2008, heparin sources were subject to a major contamination with a deadly compound-an over-sulphated chondroitin sulphate polysaccharide-that resulted in excess of 100 deaths within North America alone. In consideration of this, an arsenal of methods to screen for heparin contamination have been applied, based primarily on the detection of over-sulphated chondroitin sulphate. The targeted nature of these screening methods, for this specific contaminant, may leave contamination by other entities poorly protected against, but novel approaches, including library-based chemometric analysis in concert with a variety of spectroscopic methods, could be of great importance in combating future, potential threats.

Indexed as

Quality ControlAnimalsChondroitin SulfatesChromatography, High Pressure LiquidDrug ContaminationHeparinHumansMagnetic Resonance SpectroscopyPharmaceutical PreparationsPrincipal Component AnalysisChondroitin SulfatesHeparinPharmaceutical Preparationsanalysischemometricsglycosaminoglycansheparinquality controlspectroscopic methods

Identifiers

PMID31557911
PMCPMC6843833
OpenAlexW2976853081

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