What the lab can and cannot do: clinical interpretation of drug testing results

BM Kapur, K Aleksa - Critical Reviews in Clinical Laboratory …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Urine drug testing is one of the objective tools available to assess adherence. To monitor
adherence, quantitative urinary results can assist in differentiating “new” drug use from …

Dried matrix spots: an evolving trend in the toxicological field

ALB Jacques, MK Santos, RP Gorziza… - … Science, Medicine and …, 2022 - Springer
Dried matrix spot (DMS) is a sampling technique, primarily used to analyze blood to
diagnose metabolic diseases in newborns. As this technique has several advantages, DMS …

Do dried blood spots (DBS) have the potential to support result management processes in routine sports drug testing?

M Thevis, T Kuuranne, J Dib, A Thomas… - Drug testing and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Dried blood spots (DBS) have been considered as complementary matrix in sports drug
testing for many years. Especially concerning substances prohibited in‐competition only, the …

Blood and plasma volumetric absorptive microsampling (VAMS) coupled to LC-MS/MS for the forensic assessment of cocaine consumption

R Mandrioli, L Mercolini, M Protti - Molecules, 2020 - mdpi.com
Reliable, feasible analytical methods are needed for forensic and anti-doping testing of
cocaine and its most important metabolites, benzoylecgonine, ecgonine methyl ester, and …

[HTML][HTML] Interpol review of toxicology 2016–2019

WS Chan, GF Wong, CW Hung, YN Wong… - Forensic science …, 2020 - Elsevier
This review paper covers the forensic-relevant literature in toxicology from 2016 to 2019 as a
part of the 19th Interpol International Forensic Science Managers Symposium. The review …

Extraction of dried oral fluid spots (DOFS) for the identification of drugs of abuse using liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)

R Gorziza, J Cox, RP Limberger, LE Arroyo-Mora - Forensic Chemistry, 2020 - Elsevier
Dried matrix spots (DMS) have been utilized as an alternative sample collection method for
drug identification in different biological specimens in clinical and forensic toxicology …

Evaluation of hemaPEN® sampling device for measurement of cocaine and metabolites in capillary blood by LC-MS/MS

M Smidt, MF Bastiani, RZ Hahn, L Lima Feltraco Lizot… - Bioanalysis, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Dried blood spot sampling has been reported for on-site collection of
specimens, but measurements are affected by blood hematocrit, and special handling is …

The influence of lateral flake size in graphene/graphite paste electrodes: an electroanalytical investigation

AGM Ferrari, HM Elbardisy, V Silva, TS Belal… - Analytical …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We report the electroanalytical properties of graphene and graphite paste electrodes
comprising varying lateral flake sizes. The fabricated electrodes are first electrochemically …

Cocaine in different matrices: recent updates on pretreatment and detection techniques

Y Song, Y Zhang, L Wang, C Hu, ZF Liu… - Critical Reviews in …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Cocaine abuse has attracted increased attention in the recent past since it can cause
addiction and great harm to the normal human body. Due to cocaine exists in various …

Detection of 26 Drugs of Abuse and Metabolites in Quantitative Dried Blood Spots by Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry

T Meikopoulos, H Gika, G Theodoridis, O Begou - Molecules, 2024 - mdpi.com
A method was developed for the determination of 26 drugs of abuse from different classes,
including illicit drugs in quantitative dried blood spots (qDBSs), with the aim to provide a …