Detection of "bath Salt" synthetic cathinones and metabolites in urine via dart-ms and solid phase microextraction

Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 159-165

  Lapointe, Joseph ^a   Musselman, Brian ^a   O'Neill, Teresa ^b   Shepard, Jason R E ^b  

^a IonSense Inc   (United States)

^b STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Cathinones; Direct analysis in real time; Mass spectrometry; Solid phase microextraction; Urine analysis

Indexed keywords

CATHINONE; DRUG METABOLITE; SODIUM CHLORIDE; ALKALOID; DESIGNER DRUG;

ARTICLE; CHROMATOGRAPHY; DERIVATIZATION; DIRECT ANALYSIS IN REAL TIME MASS SPECTROMETRY; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; METABOLITE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; URINALYSIS; CHEMISTRY; HUMAN; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; URINE;

ALKALOIDS; DESIGNER DRUGS; HUMANS; MASS SPECTROMETRY; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION;

EID: 84919932778     PISSN: 10440305     EISSN: 18791123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13361-014-1006-9     Document Type: Article

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