Toxicology Laboratory, Harris County Medical Examiner Office, Houston, Texas.

abstract：:An enzyme multiplied immunoassay technique (EMIT) was used to test for opiates (morphine, hydromorphone, and codeine) in extracts of blood, bile, and tissue homogenates. All immunoassay opiate positive specimens were then tested by a reversed-phase liquid chromatographic procedure using electrochemical detection (LCEC...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Hepler BR,Sutheimer C,Sunshine I,Sebrosky GF

更新日期：1984-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding cocaine and metabolites urinary excretion following smoking is important for interpretation of urine test results in judicial, workplace and treatment settings. In National Institute on Drug Abuse approved studies on a secure research unit, six subjects smoked placebo, 10, 20, and 40 mg cocaine with a pr...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Huestis MA,Darwin WD,Shimomura E,Lalani SA,Trinidad DV,Jenkins AJ,Cone EJ,Jacobs AJ,Smith ML,Paul BD

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A feasibility study was performed to examine the effectiveness of hair testing in determining the prevalence of drug use in a young adult population. The study included 200 randomly selected young adults in Norway. It was designed to make the collection, preparation and analysis of the samples as little resource deman...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Lund HM,Gjerde H,de Courtade SM,Oiestad EL,Christophersen AS

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preliminary data regarding the use of vernix caseosa (VC) as an alternative to other biological specimens for the determination of fetal cocaine exposure are presented. Advantages of VC analysis include its presence on all newborn babies, historical record of drug exposure, and ease of collection and storage. Fifteen ...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Moore C,Dempsey D,Deitermann D,Lewis D,Leikin J

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gamma-hydroxybutyrate (GHB) is an endogenous compound, but its presence in postmortem blood presents a challenge when interpreting elevated levels as GHB is misused as a recreational drug and is also produced postmortem. A total of 387 postmortem cases (273 male and 114 female) submitted to the toxicology laboratory b...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Korb AS,Cooper G

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The maximum stability conditions for cocaine and its metabolite benzoylecgonine (BE) in urine were analyzed. Suggestions were presented after careful review of many studies and personal communications concerning cocaine and BE stability in urine. The optimal storage conditions for urine specimens with cocaine and BE w...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Hippenstiel MJ,Gerson B

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gas chromatographic (GC) method was developed for the detection of propylene glycol dinitrate (PGDN) in rodent skin following extraction with ethyl acetate. Known quantities of PGDN contained in the torpedo fuel Otto Fuel II were added to homogenates of rat skin, which were subsequently extracted with two 10-mL port...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Godin CS,Pollard DL

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The List of Prohibited Substances and Methods (the List), an International Standard published yearly by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), determines which substances and methods are prohibited in sport in- and out-of-competition. Stimulants are included within drug class S.6 under the in-competition testing sectio...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Boghosian T,Mazzoni I,Barroso O,Rabin O

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonazepam, nitrazepam and flunitrazepam are frequently used benzodiazepines, both as prescribed medication and as drugs of abuse. Little is, however, known about how these drugs are excreted in oral fluid. It has been claimed that the parent drugs are more likely to be detected in oral fluid than the 7-amino metaboli...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Vindenes V,Strand DH,Koksæter P,Gjerde H

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Part I. Expert 4: The object of this study was to investigate the applicability of commercially available expert system shells to interpretation in forensic toxicology. Amitriptyline toxicology was selected as a pilot trial. Blood and tissue concentrations of amitriptyline and nortriptyline in fatal and nonfatal amitr...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Spiehler V,Spiehler E,Osselton MD

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A microextraction by packed sorbent (MEPS) procedure for rapid concentration of methadone and its primary metabolite (EDDP) in hair samples was developed. The miniaturized approach coupled to gas chromatography with tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS-MS) was successfully validated. Hair samples (50 mg) were incubated wit...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Rosado T,Gallardo E,Vieira DN,Barroso M

更新日期：2020-12-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The quantification of drugs of abuse in keratinized matrices is becoming of special relevance for monitoring consumption and for post-mortem investigations. We aimed to implement an analytical method for the simultaneous detection of morphine (MORF), 6-monoacetylmorphine (6-MAM), methadone (MET), 2-ethylidene-1,5-dime...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Magalhães TP,Cravo S,Silva DDD,Dinis-Oliveira RJ,Afonso C,Lourdes Bastos M,Carmo H

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to develop and validate a gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method to detect drugs of abuse in a single sample of tooth. Pulverized samples of dental materials were subjected to acid hydrolysis to detect opiates, cocaine and their metabolites. The residual dental materials from these a...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Ottaviani G,Cameriere R,Cippitelli M,Froldi R,Tassoni G,Zampi M,Cingolani M

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The misuse of the commonly used chemical diethylene glycol (DEG) has lead to many poisonings worldwide. Methods were developed for analysis of DEG and its potential metabolites; ethylene glycol, glycolic acid, oxalic acid, diglycolic acid and hydroxyethoxy acetic acid in human urine, serum and cerebrospinal fluid samp...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Perala AW,Filary MJ,Bartels MJ,McMartin KE

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pharmacogenomics is the study of the linkage between an individual's genotype and the disposition of drugs in the body. The first association between adverse drug reactions and inherited variations was recognized in the 1950s, and since then, pharmacogenomics has come a long way. The importance of pharmacogenomics is ...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Kupiec TC,Raj V,Vu N

更新日期：2006-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given that external contamination must be considered in hair analysis, there is still a demand for reliable tools to differentiate between incorporation of drugs into the hair as a result of drug consumption and of the hair shaft by external contamination. With the aim of establishing alternative discrimination parame...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Scholz C,Quednow BB,Herdener M,Kraemer T,Baumgartner MR

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes a possible suicide by overdosage with diltiazem. The decreased, a 39-year-old male who had been under treatment for an unidentified heart condition, was discovered on the bathroom floor in his residence. Comprehensive drug screens performed on available postmortem specimens revealed the presence ...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Kalin JR,Wood KM,Lee AJ

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For many reasons, forensic toxicologists are being asked to determine and report their measurement uncertainty in blood alcohol analysis. While understood conceptually, the elements and computations involved in determining measurement uncertainty are generally foreign to most forensic toxicologists. Several establishe...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Gullberg RG

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The percent recovery of mercury from human hair digest samples, using the peak height cold-vapor atomic adsorption method is 73.0% +/- 10.3%. This value and its reproducibility are raised to 102.2% +/- 6.3% by use of peak area measurements in place of peak height. The so-called matrix effect is thus eliminated, and it...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Wigfield DC,Croteau SM,Perkins SL

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of nortriptyline in aqueous solutions containing various concentrations of formaldehyde was investigated. Amitriptyline, as a reaction product, was determined by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) in these experiments. Factors that may contribute to this phenomenon, including pH, formaldehyde c...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Dettling RJ,Briglia EJ,Dal Cortivo LA,Bidanset JH

更新日期：1990-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bupropion is a "second generation" antidepressant agent structurally related to the phenethylamines. Postmortem toxicology data are presented from three suicidal drug overdoses in which bupropion was detected. In two cases in which bupropion was the major toxicology finding, peripheral blood levels of the parent drug ...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Friel PN,Logan BK,Fligner CL

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, the relationships between the concentrations of R/S-methamphetamine (MA) and its metabolite R/S-amphetamine (AP), the AP/MA ratio in hair samples, and MA dependence were investigated by performing segmental hair analysis in MA users. Authentic hair samples collected from 10 chronic MA abusers were cut i...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Wang T,Shen B,Wu H,Gu J,Shen M,Xiang P

更新日期：2020-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of chemical agents were evaluated to determine their effects on fluorescence polarization immunoassays for drugs of abuse. Sixteen different agents, at concentrations up to 10%, were tested against urine assays for cannabinoids, cocaine (metabolite), amphetamines, opiates, phencyclidine (PCP), and barbiturat...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Schwarzhoff R,Cody JT

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the simultaneous analysis of cocaine (COC), derivatized benzoylecgonine (BE), and derivatized ecgonine methyl ester (EME) has been developed. Blood or urine containing deuterated analogs of the three analytes is extracted by pouring over a Chem-Elut column and eluting with chloroform/isopropanol (9:1). Th...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Isenschmid DS,Levine BS,Caplan YH

更新日期：1988-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sensitive and reproducible gas chromatographic procedure for the quantitative determination of urinary o-cresol is described. The first step involves acid hydrolysis (2N HCl, 100 degrees C, 10 min), which yields unconjugated o-cresol. After extraction (methylene chloride, pH 2), the organic layer is concentrated by ...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Truchon G,Tardif R,Brodeur J

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the lack of certified reference material, a reliable quantification in complex postmortem matrices can only be performed either by the addition of isotope-labelled standards or by the standard addition method. Although standard addition is a basic quantification procedure, its practical implementation is challe...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Reiter B,Stimpfl T

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An assay for neurotoxic esterase (neuropathy target esterase, NTE) was developed by Johnson (1,2) to assess the delayed neurotoxic potential of organophosphorus compounds. NTE activity is calculated from the rate of phenyl valerate hydrolysis resistant to paraoxon and sensitive to mipafox inhibition under specified co...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Kayyali US,Moore TB,Randall JC,Richardson RJ

更新日期：1991-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The metabolism of N-benzylpiperazine (BZP), a recently scheduled designer drug, in the rat has been studied by analyzing its urinary metabolites. p-Hydroxy-BZP (p-OH-BZP) was unequivocally identified as the main metabolite along with a minor metabolite m-hydroxy-BZP (m-OH-BZP), using gas chromatography-mass spectromet...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Tsutsumi H,Katagi M,Miki A,Shima N,Kamata T,Nakajima K,Inoue H,Kishi T,Tsuchihashi H

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ethanol is the most frequently identified compound in forensic toxicology. Although confirmation involving mass spectrometry is desirable, relatively few methods have been published to date. A novel technique utilizing a Dean's Switch to simultaneously quantitate and confirm ethyl alcohol by flame-ionization (FID) and...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Tiscione NB,Alford I,Yeatman DT,Shan X

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An original high-performance liquid chromatographic-mass spectrometric (HPLC-MS) procedure was developed for the determination of cyanide (CN) in whole blood. After the addition of K13C15N as internal standard, blood was placed in a microdiffusion device, the inner well of which was filled with a mixture of taurine (5...

journal_title：Journal of analytical toxicology

authors： Tracqui A,Raul JS,Géraut A,Berthelon L,Ludes B

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00