A fast method has been developed for the simultaneous determination of 52 stimulants and narcotics excreted unconjugated in urine by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The procedure involves the liquid/liquid extraction of the analytes from urine at strong alkaline pH and the injection of the extract into a GC/MS instrument with a fast GC column (10 m x 0.18 mm i.d.); the short column allows the complete separation of the 52 analytes in a chromatographic run of 8 min. The method has been fully validated giving lower limits of detection (LLODs) satisfactory for its application to antidoping analysis as well as to forensic toxicology. The repeatability of the concentrations and the retention times are good both for intra- and for inter-day experiments (%CV of concentrations always lower than 15 and %CV of retention times lower than 0.6). In addition, the analytical bias is satisfactory (A% always >15%). The method proposed here would be particularly useful whenever there are time constraints and the analyses have to be completed in the shortest possible time.

Strano Rossi, S., De La Torre, X., Botrè, F., A fast gas chromatography/mass spectrometry method for the determination of stimulants and narcotics in urine., <<RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY>>, 2010; 2010 (24): 1475-1480. [doi:10.1002/rcm.4542] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/10172]

A fast gas chromatography/mass spectrometry method for the determination of stimulants and narcotics in urine.

Strano Rossi, Sabina;
2010

Abstract

A fast method has been developed for the simultaneous determination of 52 stimulants and narcotics excreted unconjugated in urine by gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS). The procedure involves the liquid/liquid extraction of the analytes from urine at strong alkaline pH and the injection of the extract into a GC/MS instrument with a fast GC column (10 m x 0.18 mm i.d.); the short column allows the complete separation of the 52 analytes in a chromatographic run of 8 min. The method has been fully validated giving lower limits of detection (LLODs) satisfactory for its application to antidoping analysis as well as to forensic toxicology. The repeatability of the concentrations and the retention times are good both for intra- and for inter-day experiments (%CV of concentrations always lower than 15 and %CV of retention times lower than 0.6). In addition, the analytical bias is satisfactory (A% always >15%). The method proposed here would be particularly useful whenever there are time constraints and the analyses have to be completed in the shortest possible time.
2010
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Strano Rossi, S., De La Torre, X., Botrè, F., A fast gas chromatography/mass spectrometry method for the determination of stimulants and narcotics in urine., <<RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY>>, 2010; 2010 (24): 1475-1480. [doi:10.1002/rcm.4542] [http://hdl.handle.net/10807/10172]
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