What do you use as a hyaluronic acid ladder?

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Ewan St. John Smith

Dear Ajay, thanks for your answers - all very frustrating to find that no one seems to have picked up on this hole in the market!

Steve Scott

Ajay Rajaram

On page 40 and 41 of the catalogue attached you scan see that Contipro does perform MALLS to estimate the polydispersity index in their HA polymers

https://contipro.com/portfolio/hyaluronan-specialities

https://www.contipro.com/images/documents/Speciality-hyaluronan-chemicals.pdf

Have a great day

Martina Hermannová

It is not true that Contipro does not perform MALLS to estimate the polydispersity index. We do have six MALLS systems and every HA batch is analysed. The polydispersity is supplied upon request.

For some samples that can be observed from the e-shop, the polydispersity is guaranteed. We also compared our samples with those from Hyalose, you can find the results in Cozikova et al., Carbohydrate Polymers 2017, 160, 134-142.

(page 40)