Title
Forensic cases in the north of chile: Determination of antidepressant drugs in human whole blood
Date Issued
01 January 2013
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Universidad Arturo Prat
Publisher(s)
Sociedad Chilena de Quimica
Abstract
The consumption of antidepressant drugs has increased in these last years, leading to severe and lethal poisonings. In this work, analytical tools, namely GC/MSD and GC/NPD/iμECD, were used to identify and quantify several antidepressant drugs including amitriptyline, imipramine, sertraline, fluoxetine, and citalopram in forensic cases in the North of Chile during 2008-2011. Drugs were analyzed in biological arrays like blood. A solid phase extraction by Bond Elut Certify columns was applied in all these processes. Fluoxetine and sertraline were derivatized with pentafluoropropionic anhydride. Prazepam was used as internal standard (IS). The limit of detection (LOD) in blood were 0.5 - 20.07 ng/mL. The average extraction rate was 89.39% in blood. The relative standard deviation (RSD) was less than 3.6%, while the intra-day accuracy was < 5.5% and the inter-day was < 2.4%, referred to RSD. The procedures we have developed allow the quantification of drugs even at low therapeutic doses, a very important issue taking into account the nature of the analyzed arrays.
Start page
1733
End page
1736
Volume
58
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Farmacología, Farmacia
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84884192252
PubMed ID
Source
Journal of the Chilean Chemical Society
ISSN of the container
07179324
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
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