Simultaneous determination of metabolites of trimethylbenzenes, dimethylbenzylmercapturic acid and dimethylhippuric acid, in human urine by solid-phase extraction followed by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry

Journal of Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2002, Pages 1152-1157

  Moriwaki, Horishi ^a   Watanabe, Ayumi ^b   Arakawa, Ryuichi ^b   Tsujimoto, Yuji ^c   Shimizu, Mitsuru ^a   Noda, Tsutomu ^a   Warashina, Munehiro ^a   Tanaka, Masanobu ^a  

^a Osaka City IPHES   (Japan)

^b KANSAI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Global Environment Centre Foundation   (Japan)

Author keywords

Dimethylbenzylmercapturic acid; Dimethylhippuric acid; Liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry; Trimethylbenzenes; Urine

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; EXTRACTION; IONIZATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES; ORGANIC ACIDS;

ELECTROSPRAY;

AROMATIC COMPOUNDS;

1,2,3 TRIMETHYLBENZENE; 2,3 DIMETHYLBENZENE; 2,3 DIMETHYLBENZYLMERCAPTURIC ACID; 2,3 DIMETHYLHIPPURIC ACID; 2,4 DIMETHYLBENZYLMERCAPTURIC ACID; 2,4 DIMETHYLHIPPURIC ACID; 2,5 DIMETHYLHIPPURIC ACID; 2,6 DIMETHYLHIPPURIC ACID; 3,4 DIMETHYLHIPPURIC ACID; 3,5 DIMETHYLBENZYLMERCAPTURIC ACID; 3,5 DIMETHYLHIPPURIC ACID; AROMATIC HYDROCARBON; BENZENE DERIVATIVE; CARBOXYLIC ACID DERIVATIVE; DIMETHYLBENZYLMERCAPTURIC ACID; DIMETHYLHIPPURIC ACID; HIPPURIC ACID DERIVATIVE; TRIMETHYLBENZENE DERIVATIVE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL REACTION; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LINEAR SYSTEM; NORMAL HUMAN; OCCUPATIONAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVERSED PHASE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; STANDARD; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; URINALYSIS; URINE LEVEL;

ACETYLCYSTEINE; AIR POLLUTANTS, OCCUPATIONAL; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HIPPURATES; HUMANS; MOLECULAR STRUCTURE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; URINALYSIS; XYLENES;

EID: 2242424506     PISSN: 10765174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jms.378     Document Type: Article

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