Monitoring of chronic Cannabis abuse: An LC-MS/MS method for hair analysis

Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis

Volumn 76, Issue , 2013, Pages 119-125

  Mercolini, Laura ^a   Mandrioli, Roberto ^a   Protti, Michele ^a   Conti, Matteo ^b   Serpelloni, Giovanni ^c   Raggi, Maria Augusta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b DEPARTMENT OF MEDICAL ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^c Presidency of the Council of Ministers   (Italy)

Author keywords

9 Tetrahydrocannabinol; 11 Nor 9 carboxy 9 tetrahydrocannabinol; Chronic Cannabis abuse; Hair analysis; LC MS MS

Indexed keywords

11 HYDROXYDRONABINOL; ACETONITRILE; FORMIC ACID; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CANNABIS ADDICTION; ELECTROSPRAY; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEASIBILITY STUDIES; HAIR; HUMANS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MARIJUANA ABUSE; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL;

EID: 84872196206     PISSN: 07317085     EISSN: 1873264X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpba.2012.12.015     Document Type: Article

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