Rapid and sensitive determination of strychnine and brucine in human urine by capillary electrophoresis with field-amplified sample stacking

Biomedical Chromatography

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 186-194

  Li, Junmei ^a   Jiang, Ye ^a  

^a HEBEI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Brucine; FASS; Optimisation; Strychnine; Trace analysis; Urine

Indexed keywords

BODY FLUIDS; DRUG PRODUCTS; POSITIVE IONS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

BRUCINE; ELECTROKINETIC INJECTION; FIELD-AMPLIFIED SAMPLE STACKING; HUMAN URINE; LOW COST METHODS; OPTIMISATIONS; SIMPLE++; SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATIONS; STRYCHNINE; URINE;

CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS;

ACETIC ACID; BRUCINE; BUFFER; CATION; CHINESE DRUG; GUJINWAN; HERBACEOUS AGENT; STRYCHNINE; TRACE ELEMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALIBRATION; CAPILLARY ELECTROPHORESIS; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; DOPING; DRUG DETERMINATION; EXTRACTION; FEMALE; FIELD AMPLIFIED SAMPLE STACKING; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; SCREENING; TECHNIQUE; URINE LEVEL;

STRYCHNOS TOXIFERA;

EID: 74849138374     PISSN: 02693879     EISSN: 10990801     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bmc.1270     Document Type: Article

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