Abstract
Heparin is a carbohydrate polymer, which is clinically used as an anticoagulant for the treatment of thrombotic disorders. The anticoagulant process is mainly mediated by the interaction of heparin with antithrombin followed by inhibition of clotting factors IIa (FIIa) and Xa (FXa). The influence of polymer disaccharide structure, average molecular weight and impurity profiling (e.g., chloride and water content) was investigated by NMR spectrometry and principal component analysis (PCA) for a representative dataset of porcine heparin samples (n = 509). A significant linear dependence was found between anticoagulant activity and scores on the third principal component (PC3) based on the non-targeted analysis of 1H NMR fingerprints. The correlation between average molecular values and anticoagulant activity for the 24 porcine heparin samples from two manufacturers was linear (R = 0.85) over typical values for porcine heparin preparations. Chloride and water contents were identified as negatively influencing factors for the actual activity values as their presence decrease the “pharmaceutically active” organic part of heparin preparations. Some suggestions regarding manufacturing process are made according to the results.
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