Impact of the grinding process on the quantification of ethyl glucuronide in hair using a validated UPLC-ESI-MS-MS method

Journal of Analytical Toxicology

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 17-23

  Kummer, Natalie ^a   Wille, Sarah M R ^a   Di Fazio, Vincent ^a,b,c   Fernández, Maria Del Mar Ramírez ^a   Yegles, Michel ^b   Lambert, Willy E E ^c   Samyn, Nele ^a  

^a National Institute of Criminalistics and Criminology   (Belgium)

^b LABORATOIRE NATIONAL DE SANTÉ   (Luxembourg)

^c GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ETHYL GLUCURONIDE; GLUCURONIC ACID;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ALCOHOL INTOXICATION; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; GRINDING; HAIR ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPH; MASS SPECTROMETER; MEASUREMENT ERROR; NORMAL HUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY CONTROL; REPRODUCIBILITY; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; ULTRA PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; UNCERTAINTY; VALIDATION STUDY; ALCOHOLISM; CHEMISTRY; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HAIR; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; MALE; STANDARD;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ALCOHOLISM; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FEMALE; GLUCURONATES; HAIR; HUMANS; MALE; QUALITY CONTROL; REFERENCE STANDARDS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84922433285     PISSN: 01464760     EISSN: 19452403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jat/bku108     Document Type: Article

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