Dried blood spots: Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis of Δ9-tetrahydrocannabinol and its main metabolites

Journal of Chromatography A

Volumn 1271, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 33-40

  Mercolini, Laura ^a   Mandrioli, Roberto ^d   Sorella, Vittorio ^a   Somaini, Lorenzo ^b   Giocondi, Daniele ^c   Serpelloni, Giovanni ^b   Raggi, Maria Augusta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Department for Life Quality Studies ^*  (Italy)

^c Addiction Treatment Centre   (Italy)

^d Dept for Antidrug Policies   (Italy)

Author keywords

" On street" controls; Cannabis; Dried Blood Spots (DBSs); HPLC MS MS; Metabolites

Indexed keywords

BIOMOLECULES; BLOOD; CONTROLLED DRUG DELIVERY; ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; METABOLITES;

CANNABIS; DRIED BLOOD SPOTS; ELECTROSPRAY IONISATION (ESI); HPLC-MS/MS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY - MASS SPECTROMETRIES; SIMULTANEOUS DETERMINATIONS; STORAGE AND TRANSPORTATIONS; TRIPLE-QUADRUPOLE MASS SPECTROMETER;

LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY;

DRONABINOL; METHANOL; WATER;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; ELECTROSPRAY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; METABOLITE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; VALIDATION PROCESS;

CANNABIS;

EID: 84871386342     PISSN: 00219673     EISSN: 18733778     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chroma.2012.11.030     Document Type: Article

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