Development of a liquid chromatographic method for the simultaneous determination of six benzodiazepines in human plasma after solid-phase extraction

Analytical Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1075-1084

  Fernández, Purificación ^a   Vazquez, Catherine ^a   Lorenzo, Rosa A ^b   Carro, Antonia M ^b   Bermejo, Ana M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepines; HPLC DAD; Plasma; Solid phase extraction

Indexed keywords

EID: 77949328465     PISSN: 00032719     EISSN: 1532236X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00032710903492490     Document Type: Article

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