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LLOQ “low enough”? [Bioanalytics]

posted by Helmut – Vienna, Austria, 2013-01-10 21:46 (4910 d 15:10 ago) – Posting: # 9821
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Hi John,

❝ Do you consider 1ng/mL LLoQ sufficient with the current state of art equipments? I think it's too high (Sciex 5500+ can do better).

Can’t tell. The lowest level one possibly can reach depends on the molecule, ionisation sites, clean-up/trace-enrichment, blah blah. I have seen a validated method for formoterol with an LLOQ of 400 fg/mL already eight years ago. That’s 2500times lower than your 1 ng/mL – but likely another drug, right? :-D

❝ With the drug I am working with, based on pilot data, will be like 120 ng/mL for Cmax (the highest Cmax, the study was 200 mg so assuming 2x200mg). The range now is 1ng/mL - 200 ng/mL. I think I can push down the ULoQ to 100 ng/mL and do dilution for higher conc samples.

Sounds OK, but didn’t you see no values >LLOQ in ~40% of the subjects?

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