An efficient, robust method for the determination of cannabinoids in whole blood by LC-MS-MS

Journal of Analytical Toxicology

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 639-648

  Tiscione, Nicholas B ^a   Miller, Russell ^a   Shan, Xiaoqin ^a   Sprague, Jessica ^b   Yeatman, Dustin Tate ^a  

^a Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

11 HYDROXYDELTA 9 TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; CANNABINOID; DRONABINOL; TETRAHYDROCANNABINOLIC ACID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; 11-HYDROXY-DELTA(9)-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL; 11-NOR-DELTA(9)-TETRAHYDROCANNABINOL-9-CARBOXYLIC ACID; ANALGESIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONTROLLED STUDY; HUMAN; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIMIT OF QUANTITATION; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; CALIBRATION; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; LIQUID LIQUID EXTRACTION; PROCEDURES; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE;

ANALGESICS; CALIBRATION; CANNABINOIDS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; DRONABINOL; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; HUMANS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; LIQUID-LIQUID EXTRACTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SPECIMEN HANDLING; SUBSTANCE ABUSE DETECTION; TANDEM MASS SPECTROMETRY;

EID: 84992179504     PISSN: 01464760     EISSN: 19452403     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jat/bkw063     Document Type: Article

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