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ACE-031

5 mg vial

ACE-031: a 5 mg vial

What a 5 mg vial of ACE-031 becomes once it is mixed, and what each dose reported in the sources draws to on a syringe. Every figure is arithmetic on the vial size in the heading — none of it is a recommendation, and the doses are the ones our sources describe rather than ones we picked.

Leading with

5 mg + 1 mL bacteriostatic water = 5 mg/mL

Chosen because it puts the reported doses on readable marks of a 1 mL U-100 syringe. Other volumes are perfectly valid — the dilution table further down covers them, and the concentration changes what every dose draws to.

What each reported dose draws to

At 5 mg/mL, on a 1 mL U-100 syringe. Every row names the source it came from, and a trial protocol and a community convention are not the same kind of information.

Reported doses for ACE-031, converted to syringe units for a 5 mg vial.
GoalDoseUnitsDoses in this vialSource
Dose used in the phase 2 trialEvery 2 to 4 weeks · Subcutaneous1 mg – 3 mg20 units – 60 units5Clinical trial

Check every figure against the vial in front of you before drawing. Vials are filled with an overage and labels are not a guarantee. Change any of these numbers in the calculator.

How long a vial lasts

Vials round up, because most of a vial is not a thing you can buy. Only doses with a stated continuous frequency appear here — anything described as a course, a range or “as needed” has no honest weekly rate, so it is left out.

Dose used in the phase 2 trial

Every 2 to 4 weeks

One 5 mg vial holds 1–5 doses at this dose, which is 3–15.2 weeks of use.

Supplies for Dose used in the phase 2 trial, by cycle length.
CycleDoses5 mg vialsSyringesBacteriostatic water
8 weeks31–331 mL – 3 mL
12 weeks41–441 mL – 4 mL
16 weeks62–662 mL – 6 mL

Syringes assume one per dose and no wastage. Water assumes each vial is mixed at 1 mL. Neither accounts for a dropped vial, a bent needle or a dose you decide to change, all of which happen.

If you add a different amount of water

The same 5 mg of compound, at four common volumes. More water means a larger, easier-to-measure draw of a weaker solution; less water means the opposite. The amount of compound you inject is identical in every row — only the volume carrying it changes.

Concentration and draw volume for a 5 mg vial at four water volumes.
Water addedConcentration1 mg draws to
1 mLshown above5 mg/mL20 units units · 0.2 mL
2 mL2.5 mg/mL40 units units · 0.4 mL
3 mL1.667 mg/mL60 units units · 0.6 mL
5 mL1 mg/mL100 units units · 1 mL

Storage

Before mixing

Refrigerated at 2–8 °C, protected from light. Do not freeze the clinical formulation.

After mixing

Refrigerated at 2–8 °C. Proteins of this size are more fragile than short peptides — avoid shaking, which denatures them.

Other vial sizes

The same compound, different arithmetic.

Arithmetic on the vial size named above and the doses our sources report. Nothing here is a recommendation, a protocol or medical advice, and no clinician has reviewed it. Speak to a licensed healthcare provider before acting on any of it.

Sources for the doses above are listed in full on the ACE-031 profile, each with the trial or label it came from.