Nicotine and cotinine adducts of a melanin intermediate demonstrated by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

Chemical Research in Toxicology

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 275-279

  Dehn, D L ^a   Claffey, D J ^a   Duncan, M W ^b   Ruth, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; COTININE; LEVODOPA; MELANIN; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NICOTINE;

ARTICLE; DESORPTION; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; HAIR COLOR; IONIZATION; LASER; MASS SPECTROMETRY; OLIGOMERIZATION; OXIDATION; PIGMENTATION; PRECIPITATION; PROTON TRANSPORT;

COTININE; HAIR; HUMANS; MELANINS; MONOPHENOL MONOOXYGENASE; NICOTINE; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, MATRIX-ASSISTED LASER DESORPTION-IONIZATION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION;

EID: 0035077632     PISSN: 0893228X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/tx000205l     Document Type: Article

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