Antibiotic use and resistance in animals: Belgian initiatives.

abstract：:The present study demonstrates the applicability of a strategy involving use of liquid chromatography (LC) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS) techniques for the identification and characterization of minute quantities of degradation products, without their isolation from the reaction matrix in pure fo...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Mehta S,Shah RP,Singh S

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic cannabinoids (SCs), mimicking the psychoactive effects of cannabis, consist of a vast array of structurally diverse compounds. A novel compound belonging to the SC family, (1-(cyclohexylmethyl)-1H-indol-3-yl)-(2,2,3,3-tetramethylcyclopropyl)methanone (named TMCP-CHM in this article) contains a cyclopropane r...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Grigoryev A,Kavanagh P,Labutin A,Pechnikov A,Dowling G,Shevyrin V,Krupina N

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) is the main mechanism of action of organophosphorus compounds (OP), and AChE reactivators (oximes) are at present the only causal therapeutic approach. Being the key target of OP toxicity, AChE may serve as a valuable tool for diagnosis of OP exposure as well as for the invest...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Worek F,Eyer P,Thiermann H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the implementation of a new blanket scheduling system in 2013, new psychoactive substance (NPS) abuse remains a serious social concern in Japan. We present a fatal intoxication case involving 5F-ADB (methyl 2-[1-(5-fluoropentyl)-1H-indazole-3-carboxamido]-3,3-dimethylbutanoate) and diphenidine. Postmortem bloo...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Kusano M,Zaitsu K,Taki K,Hisatsune K,Nakajima J,Moriyasu T,Asano T,Hayashi Y,Tsuchihashi H,Ishii A

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effectiveness of doping control in sport has been improved continuously during the past 50 years. One of the major steps forward was the introduction of unannounced and targeted out-of-competition testing in order to control the misuse of anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS), mainly during the end of the 1980s. It a...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Hemmersbach P

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oral fluid (OF) is an important matrix for monitoring drugs. Smoking cannabis is common, but vaporization and edible consumption also are popular. OF pharmacokinetics are available for controlled smoked cannabis, but few data exist for vaporized and oral routes. Frequent and occasional cannabis smokers were recruited ...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Swortwood MJ,Newmeyer MN,Andersson M,Abulseoud OA,Scheidweiler KB,Huestis MA

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simple and sensitive method is described for voltammetric determination of promethazine hydrochloride (PMZ), a widely used phenothiazine drug, based on its electrochemical oxidation at a multi-wall carbon nanotube (MWCNT) modified glassy carbon electrode (GCE). Compared with bare GCE, the MWCNT-modified GCE exhibite...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Xi X,Ming L,Liu J

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Detection of the abuse of synthetic steroids in food production is nowadays relatively straightforward using modern techniques such as gas or liquid chromatography coupled to mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS or LC-MS/MS, respectively). However, proving the abuse of 'endogenous' (or naturally occurring) steroids is more dif...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Scarth JP,Kay J,Teale P,Akre C,Le Bizec B,De Brabander HF,Vanhaecke L,Van Ginkel L,Points J

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Docetaxel (DTX) is an anti-cancer compound derived from 10-deacetyl baccatin III which is indicated for treatment of breast, lung, prostate, gastro-esophageal, and head and neck cancers. Epimerization of DTX at the C-7 hydroxyl position has intrigued chemists and has been implicated in loss of potency, as well as in t...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Mohsin S,Arellano IH,Choudhury NR,Garg S

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current doping trends overshadow the traditional interpretation of using prohibited performance-enhancing drugs to improve training and/or sports results. Its definition has evolved due to several recent cases of unconventional manipulation in sports. In this article, we present a case study of an intentional intoxica...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Baltazar-Martins G,Del Mar Plata M,Muñoz-Guerra J,Argaya J,Del Coso J

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Even though hair analysis often seems to be the best choice for retrospective monitoring of cocaine intake, differentiating between incorporated cocaine and external contamination is widely debated. In this study we report results obtained in 90 hair samples from addicts. All samples were analyzed for cocaine, benzoyl...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Gambelunghe C,Rossi R,Aroni K,Gili A,Bacci M,Pascali V,Fucci N

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This work presents an analytical procedure for the identification and characterization of liposome-entrapped haemoglobins, based on flow cytofluorimetry. Flow cytofluorimetric detection is carried out following labelling by two distinct fluorescent reagents, an anti-haemoglobin antibody, fluorescein isothiocyanate con...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Esposito S,Colicchia S,de la Torre X,Donati F,Mazzarino M,Botrè F

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rocuronium bromide is a non-depolarizing neuromuscular blocking agent that causes rapid muscle relaxation after intravenous injection. Regulatory authorities for registration of pharmaceuticals for human use require the evaluation of the stability of active compounds under various stress conditions. Forced degradation...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Wegener O,Harms G,Volmer DA,Hayen H

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthetic tryptamine 5-methoxy-N-methyl-N-isopropyltryptamine (5-MeO-MiPT) has recently been abused as a hallucinogenic drug in Germany and Switzerland. This study presents a case of 5-MeO-MiPT intoxication and the structural elucidation of metabolites in pooled human liver microsomes (pHLM), blood, and urine. Mic...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Grafinger KE,Hädener M,König S,Weinmann W

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Doping with natural steroids can be detected by evaluating the urinary concentrations and ratios of several endogenous steroids. Since these biomarkers of steroid doping are known to present large inter-individual variations, monitoring of individual steroid profiles over time allows switching from population-based to...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Van Renterghem P,Van Eenoo P,Sottas PE,Saugy M,Delbeke F

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurate on-site devices to screen for drug intake are critical for establishing whether an individual is driving under the influence of drugs (DUID); however, on-site oral fluid (OF) cocaine device performance is variable. We evaluated the performance of a newly developed benzoylecgonine (BE) test-strip for the Draeg...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Ellefsen KN,Concheiro M,Pirard S,Gorelick DA,Huestis MA

更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Addiction is a complex disorder with interacting factors, including environmental factors, drug-induced neurobiological changes, comorbidity, personality traits and stress responsivity. Numerous genetic variants that affect these factors may work in concert to affect vulnerability and severity of addiction. Traditiona...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Fattore L

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fast and unequivocal drug detection is of considerable importance in numerous fields of analytical chemistry, and today mass spectrometry-based approaches are often the method of choice due to their sensitive and specific nature. Mass spectrometry is in constant flux with innovations and thus supports the development ...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Thevis M,Volmer DA

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Therapeutic drug monitoring of antipsychotics is important in optimizing individual therapy. In psychiatric populations, classical venous blood sampling is experienced as frightening. Interest in alternative techniques, like dried blood spots (DBS), has consequently increased. A fast and easy to perform DBS method for...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Patteet L,Maudens KE,Stove CP,Lambert WE,Morrens M,Sabbe B,Neels H

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cobalt is an essential mineral micronutrient and is regularly present in equine nutritional and feed supplements. Therefore, cobalt is naturally present at low concentrations in biological samples. The administration of cobalt chloride is considered to be blood doping and is thus prohibited. To control the misuse of c...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Popot MA,Ho ENM,Stojiljkovic N,Bagilet F,Remy P,Maciejewski P,Loup B,Chan GHM,Hargrave S,Arthur RM,Russo C,White J,Hincks P,Pearce C,Ganio G,Zahra P,Batty D,Jarrett M,Brooks L,Prescott LA,Bailly-Chouriberry L,Bo

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new, simple, rapid, accurate and precise high performance thin layer chromatography (HPTLC) method has been developed for the estimation of ondansetron hydrochloride in bulk and sublingual tablets. The mobile phase composition was chloroform : ethyl acetate : methanol : ammonia (9:5:4:0.1 v/v). Spectrodensitometric ...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Mujtaba A,Kohli K,Ali J,Baboota S

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic cannabinoids are a group of psychoactive drugs presently widespread among drug users in Europe. Analytical methods to measure these compounds in urine are in demand as urine is a preferred matrix for drug testing. For most synthetic cannabinoids, the parent compounds are rarely detected in urine. Therefore u...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Vikingsson S,Gréen H,Brinkhagen L,Mukhtar S,Josefsson M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical warfare agents (CWA) are highly toxic compounds which have been produced to kill or hurt people during conflicts or terrorist attacks. Despite the fact that their use is strictly prohibited according to international convention, populations' exposure still recently occurred. Development of markers of exposure...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Spiandore M,Piram A,Lacoste A,Josse D,Doumenq P

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urine samples were analyzed for lactose to investigate if elevated lactose concentrations indicate recent (< 48 hours) intravenous abuse of substances containing lactose as an excipient. Elevated lactose levels were found in samples given by patients who had recently injected substances intravenously, verified by fres...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Keltanen TN,Heikman PK,Muhonen LH,Gunnar TO,Ojanperä IA

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Ministry of Health in the Netherlands has made illicit drug testing for drug users possible since the 1990s, in order to prevent serious health hazards associated with unexpected dangerous substances. This system of illicit drug testing is called the Drug Information and Monitoring System (DIMS). In nearly two dec...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Brunt TM,Niesink RJ

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Workplace drug testing in Europe is governed by a patchwork of legislation--or lack of it. Other difficulties are caused by language, currency and a host of other factors, including the difficulty in defining 'safety critical'. The European Workplace Drug Testing Society's (EWDTS) history and objectives are briefly ou...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Pierce A

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iso-α-acids (IAAs) can be used as markers for the consumption of beer. Postmortem specimens from a range of coronial cases were analyzed for IAAs in order to determine the prevalence of beer consumption and any correlation to blood alcohol concentrations (BAC). A total of 130 cases were included in this study includin...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Rodda LN,Gerostamoulos D,Drummer OH

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vaping of synthetic cannabinoids via e-cigarettes is growing in popularity. In the present study, we tentatively identified 12 by-products found in a pure sample of the synthetic cannabinoid Cumyl-5F-PINACA (1-(5-fluoropentyl)-N-(2-phenylpropan-2-yl)-1H-indazole-3-carboxamide), a prevalent new psychoactive substance (...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Münster-Müller S,Matzenbach I,Knepper T,Zimmermann R,Pütz M

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The anabolic-androgenic steroid methylstenbolone (MSTEN; 2α,17α-dimethyl-17β-hydroxy-5α-androst-1-en-3-one) is available as a so-called designer steroid or nutritional supplement. It is occasionally detected in doping control samples, predominantly tested and confirmed as the glucuronic acid conjugate of methylstenbol...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Piper T,Fusshöller G,Schänzer W,Lagojda A,Kuehne D,Thevis M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emerging new psychoactive substances made available for recreational drug use have recently started to include designer benzodiazepines. As a consequence, the routine immunoassay drug testing for benzodiazepines may become less effective, due to an increased occurrence of 'false negative' and 'false positive' resu...

journal_title：Drug testing and analysis

authors： Pettersson Bergstrand M,Helander A,Hansson T,Beck O

更新日期：2017-04-01 00:00:00