A simple, rapid, sensitive and reproducible method for enantiomer analysis of methamphetamine, amphetamine, cathinone and methcathinone was developed and validated. The compounds were extracted from equine plasma and ...A simple, rapid, sensitive and reproducible method for enantiomer analysis of methamphetamine, amphetamine, cathinone and methcathinone was developed and validated. The compounds were extracted from equine plasma and urine using a fast liquid-liquid extraction procedure. Only one milliliter plasma and one hundred microliter urine sample is needed for analysis. The extraction procedure had good recovery (>70%) and the matrix effect was negligible. Enantiomer differentiation and confirmation were achieved using liquid chromatography with chiral stationary phase and mass spectrometry detection. The method demonstrated excellent reproducibility with intra-day and inter-day precision of lower than 5%. The lower limits of detection for all of the compounds studied here were at low pg/mL level for both plasma and urine. This is the first report of the analysis of four chiral compounds in equine plasma and urine. Routine application was demonstrated for (S)- and (R)-enantiomer differentiation.展开更多
Synthetic cathinones are new psychoactive substances that represent a health risk worldwide.For most of the 130 reported compounds,information about toxicology and/or metabolism is not available,which hampers their de...Synthetic cathinones are new psychoactive substances that represent a health risk worldwide.For most of the 130 reported compounds,information about toxicology and/or metabolism is not available,which hampers their detection(and subsequent medical treatment)in intoxication cases.The principles of forensic analytical chemistry and the use of powerful analytical techniques are indispensable for stab-lishing the most appropriate biomarkers for these substances.Human metabolic fate of synthetic cathinones can be assessed by the analysis of urine and blood obtained from authentic consumers;however,this type of samples is limited and difficult to access.In this work,the metabolic behaviour of three synthetic cathinones(4-CEC,4-CPrC and 5-PPDi)and one amphetamine(3-FEA)has been evalu-ated by incubation with pooled human hepatocytes and metabolite identification has been performed by high-resolution mass spectrometry.This in vitro approach has previously shown its feasibility for obtaining excretory human metabolites.4-CEC and 3-FEA were not metabolised,and for 4-CPrC only two minor metabolites were obtained.On the contrary,for the recently reported 5-PPDi,twelve phase I metabolites were elucidated.Up to our knowledge,this is the first metabolic study of an indanyl-cathinone.Data reported in this paper will allow the detection of these synthetic stimulants in intoxi-cation cases,and will facilitate future research on the metabolic behaviour of other indanyl-based cathinones.展开更多
文摘A simple, rapid, sensitive and reproducible method for enantiomer analysis of methamphetamine, amphetamine, cathinone and methcathinone was developed and validated. The compounds were extracted from equine plasma and urine using a fast liquid-liquid extraction procedure. Only one milliliter plasma and one hundred microliter urine sample is needed for analysis. The extraction procedure had good recovery (>70%) and the matrix effect was negligible. Enantiomer differentiation and confirmation were achieved using liquid chromatography with chiral stationary phase and mass spectrometry detection. The method demonstrated excellent reproducibility with intra-day and inter-day precision of lower than 5%. The lower limits of detection for all of the compounds studied here were at low pg/mL level for both plasma and urine. This is the first report of the analysis of four chiral compounds in equine plasma and urine. Routine application was demonstrated for (S)- and (R)-enantiomer differentiation.
基金financial support from the Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad Spain(Project CTQ2015-65603-P)from Universitat Jaume I(UJI-B2018-19)+1 种基金Ministerio de Educación,Cultura y Deporte in Spain for his predoctoral grant(FPU15/02033)financial support received for his research stay at the University of Copenhagen(EST17/00024)。
文摘Synthetic cathinones are new psychoactive substances that represent a health risk worldwide.For most of the 130 reported compounds,information about toxicology and/or metabolism is not available,which hampers their detection(and subsequent medical treatment)in intoxication cases.The principles of forensic analytical chemistry and the use of powerful analytical techniques are indispensable for stab-lishing the most appropriate biomarkers for these substances.Human metabolic fate of synthetic cathinones can be assessed by the analysis of urine and blood obtained from authentic consumers;however,this type of samples is limited and difficult to access.In this work,the metabolic behaviour of three synthetic cathinones(4-CEC,4-CPrC and 5-PPDi)and one amphetamine(3-FEA)has been evalu-ated by incubation with pooled human hepatocytes and metabolite identification has been performed by high-resolution mass spectrometry.This in vitro approach has previously shown its feasibility for obtaining excretory human metabolites.4-CEC and 3-FEA were not metabolised,and for 4-CPrC only two minor metabolites were obtained.On the contrary,for the recently reported 5-PPDi,twelve phase I metabolites were elucidated.Up to our knowledge,this is the first metabolic study of an indanyl-cathinone.Data reported in this paper will allow the detection of these synthetic stimulants in intoxi-cation cases,and will facilitate future research on the metabolic behaviour of other indanyl-based cathinones.
