Determination of the urinary benzene metabolites S-phenylmercapturic acid and trans,trans-muconic acid by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

Carcinogenesis

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 719-726

  Melikian, Assieh A ^a   O'Connor, Ray ^a,b   Prahalad, Agasanur K ^a,c   Hu, Peifeng ^a,d   Li, Heyi ^a   Kagan, Mark ^a   Thompson, Seth ^a  

^a AMERICAN HEALTH FOUNDATION   (United States)

^b MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d BAXTER HEALTHCARE CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCYSTEINE DERIVATIVE; BENZENE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CIGARETTE SMOKE; CREATININE; MUCONIC ACID;

ARTICLE; HUMAN; IONIZATION; ISOMER; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLIC ACTIVATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SMOKING; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; URINALYSIS; URINARY EXCRETION;

EID: 0032989171     PISSN: 01433334     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/carcin/20.4.719     Document Type: Article

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