Title
Development and validation of a solid-phase extraction gas chromatography-mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous quantification of opioid drugs in human whole blood and plasma
Date Issued
01 January 2011
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad Arturo Prat
Abstract
A rapid, selective, sensitive, and specific method is presented to simultaneously quantify morphine, 6-monoacetylmorphine (6-MAM), codeine, heroin, fentanyl, and methadone in human whole blood and plasma. The drugs were extracted with phosphate buffer at pH 6, followed by solid-phase extraction (SPE) and quantification by GC/MS with electron impact ionization using helium as carrier gas. Quantification was performed based on nalorphine as internal standard (IS). The specificity, linearity, intra- and inter-assay precision and accuracy, and extraction recovery were fully evaluated. The limits of detection (LODs) were 0.40 - 7.63 ng/mL for whole blood and 0.80 - 32.00 ng/mL for plasma. The method is fast, simple, and accurate, with the sensitivity and specificity required in forensic and clinical toxicology.
Start page
799
End page
802
Volume
56
Issue
3
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Física atómica, molecular y química
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84856112082
Source
Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society
ISSN of the container
07179324
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