A critical review of microextraction by packed sorbent as a sample preparation approach in drug bioanalysis

Bioanalysis

Volumn 5, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 1409-1442

  Alves, Gilberto ^a,b   Rodrigues, Márcio ^a,b,c   Fortuna, Ana ^b,c   Falcão, Amílcar ^b,c   Queiroz, João ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BEIRA INTERIOR   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COIMBRA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIARRHYTHMIC AGENT; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICONVULSIVE AGENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; ANTIHYPERTENSIVE AGENT; ANTILIPEMIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; BUPIVACAINE; BUPRENORPHINE; CARBAMAZEPINE; CODEINE; ILLICIT DRUG; IMMUNOSUPPRESSIVE AGENT; LIDOCAINE; LOCAL ANESTHETIC AGENT; MEPIVACAINE; METHADONE; MORPHINE; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANALGESIC AGENT; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; ORGANIC SOLVENT; OXCARBAZEPINE; OXYCODONE; PRILOCAINE; REMIFENTANIL; ROPIVACAINE; SORBENT; STEROID; UNINDEXED DRUG;

BLOOD ANALYSIS; DRIED BLOOD SPOT TESTING; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG HAIR LEVEL; DRUG ISOLATION; DRUG MILK LEVEL; DRUG MONITORING; DRUG STRUCTURE; DRUG URINE LEVEL; ELUTION; EXTRACTION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MICROEXTRACTION BY PACKED SORBENT; NONHUMAN; PAIN; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; URINALYSIS;

ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PHARMACEUTICAL PREPARATIONS; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION;

EID: 84878872813     PISSN: 17576180     EISSN: 17576199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4155/bio.13.92     Document Type: Review

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