. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Mar 1.

Published in final edited form as: Glycoconj J. 2008 Sep 6;26(2):211–218. doi: 10.1007/s10719-008-9177-x

Table 3.

HS/heparin disaccharide composition analysis by high performance liquid chromatography with post-column fluorescence and ESI MS detection

Sample	HS/heparin disaccharide composition^a
	Unsaturated disaccharide (%)
	ΔDi-0S	ΔDi-NS	ΔDi-6S	ΔDi-2S	ΔDi-NS6S	ΔDi-NS2S	ΔDi-2S6S	ΔDi-triS
0.5 day	n.d./–	62/–	13/–	n.d./–	7.3/–	18/–	n.d./–	n.d./–
1 day	n.d./–	100/–	n.d./–	n.d./–	n.d./–	n.d./–	n.d./–	n.d./–
5 day	–/n.d.	–/18	–/34	–/n.d.	–/30	–/n.d.	–/n.d.	–/18
Adult	–/38	–/12	–/15	–/n.d.	–/4.9	–/n.d.	–/n.d.	–/30

determined by post-column fluorescence detection/determined by MS detection

n.d. not detected, en dash not determined