Hair-based rapid analyses for multiple drugs in forensics and doping: Application of dynamic multiple reaction monitoring with LC-MS/MS

Chemistry Central Journal

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Shah, Iltaf ^a   Petroczi, Andrea ^a   Uvacsek, Martina ^b   Ránky, Márta ^c   Naughton, Declan P ^a  

^a KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION   (Hungary)

^c EÖTVÖS LORÁND UNIVERSITY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Controlled drugs; Doping; Drugs of abuse; Dynamic MRM; Forensics; Human hair; LC MS MS; Toxicology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920109260     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1752153X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s13065-014-0073-0     Document Type: Article

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