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c/bpc157·posted 4 months ago by u/piotr_grimaldi

genuine question about tendon that I am slightly embarrassed to ask

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genuine question about tendon that I am slightly embarrassed to ask. If this has been answered properly somewhere, link me and I will delete.

Assumed regulatory status was static and it was not. Checked again this year and the answer had changed where I live.

Went and read the primary rodent papers after arguing about a summary for a week. They are much narrower than the threads suggest.

Sent a vial to VendorInvestigate: 99.6% against a claimed 99.0%, with the mass confirming the sequence. Both halves mattered to me.

Would rather be corrected in public than confident in private.

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u/bpc_scepticresearch peptides30 points·4 months ago

The three questions, kept separate, because this board runs them together constantly.

Identity: is this the sequence I ordered? Answered by mass spectrometry against a theoretical mass. Quantity: how much peptide is in the vial? Answered by net peptide content, not by area percent. Stability: what happens to it in solution over time? Answered by a stability statement with conditions attached, and almost never asked for.

A certificate that answers one of the three is common. One that answers all three is rare and worth choosing a supplier over. Nothing here is approved for human use in any case, so all three are questions about material rather than about anything else.

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u/line_petrov18 points·4 months ago

Every claim I could trace in this board went back to about four papers. That was a sobering afternoon.

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u/slow_logbook_ftw15 points·4 months ago

Every claim I could trace in this board went back to about four papers.

Disagreeing with this line: that paper is in a rodent model and it is being quoted as a human result.

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u/tomas_kimani4 points·4 months ago·edited

Purity by area percent tells you the sample is homogeneous. Mass spectrometry tells you what the homogeneous thing is. For a short peptide, the second question is the one worth paying for.

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u/ahmed_okafor6 points·4 months ago

Small fix — fifteen residues, not seventeen. The sequence is public and easy to check.

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[deleted]7 points·4 months ago

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u/canada_coverage15 points·4 months ago

What jurisdiction are you asking about? The answer has changed in several.

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u/nadia_nascimento9 points·4 months ago

Paid for identity confirmation rather than just purity for the first time here. Worth it, and it is not the default on most certificates.

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u/piotr_grimaldiOP5 points·4 months ago

Kept a reconstituted vial too long out of curiosity and learned something about solution stability I would rather have read.

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u/lina_novak6 points·4 months ago

That is a purity figure, not an identity confirmation. Two different tests and only one answers the question asked.

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u/sequence_checkerMOD6 points·4 months ago·edited

Standing reminder in every thread here: research material is not approved for human use.

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u/ms_fragmenter5 points·4 months ago

Research-use-only material is not approved for human use. In this board that is not a formality — it is the reason the clinical evidence base is as thin as it is.

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u/mei_serrano2 points·4 months ago

Asked CPC for the theoretical mass alongside the certificate and they sent it without asking why.

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u/kavya_verhoeven1 point·4 months ago

Bought small, tested identity first, and only then thought about anything else. That order felt right.

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u/thandi_solberg1 point·4 months ago

What method produced that purity number?

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u/signe_grimaldi0 points·4 months ago

It is a fifteen-residue peptide with a published sequence, which makes synthesis straightforward and makes identity verification the meaningful test rather than an optional extra.

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