Determination of cannabinoids in biological samples using a new solid phase micro-extraction membrane and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry

A simple, rapid and relatively solventless method for extraction of objective compounds would be useful for forensic, judicial and clinical purposes. Solid phase micro-extraction membrane (SPMEM) is one such extraction technique that integrates sampling, extraction and concentration into a single step, and combines the advantages of both the solid phase micro-extraction (SPME) and membrane separation. In this study, a new kind of membrane was prepared using polyamide and Tenax compounds, and applied to solid phase micro-extraction. Characteristics of the membrane such as adsorption capacity were tested. Extraction conditions such as adsorption time, desorption solvents, desorption time and assisted desorption treatment methods were studied and optimized. Tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and cannabidiol (CBD) in blood and brain of the injected male mice, and in spiked human urine were extracted using this solid phase micro-extraction membrane method. The extracted THC and CBD were further determined with LC-MS using APCI. Ions analyzed in single ion monitoring mode were 315 for THC and CBD, and 318 for the deuterated THC internal standard.     

生物检材中吗啡类生物碱的LC-MS／MS分析

目的针对滥用药物分析鉴定实践中亟待解决的问题,开展LC-MS/MS分析生物检材中吗啡类生物碱的应用研究。方法满足不同的鉴定需要,分别建立血液、尿液、唾液和头发等生物检材的样品前处理方法,确定同时分析海洛因、单乙酰吗啡、吗啡、可待因、乙酰可待因、二氢可待因酮和氢吗啡酮等吗啡类生物碱的LC-MS/MS方法。将方法应用于实际案例。结果所建立的方法对吗啡类生物碱分离良好。尿液稀释法、尿液提取法和头发中吗啡的最低检测限(LOD)分别为10ng/mL、0.01ng/mL和0.01ng/mg。结论所建立的方法简便、快速、特异性强、灵敏度高。目标物中加入二氢可待因酮和氢吗啡酮扩大了方法的实用范围。     

SPME与GC/MS相结合检验尿液中的氯胺酮

目的应用固相微萃取与气相色谱-质谱联用技术分析尿液中的氯胺酮。方法对影响SPME萃取效果的萃取头类型、萃取时间、解析时间、离子强度等因素条件进行优化,分析尿中氯胺酮。结果在0.5~2.5μg/m l范围内线性关系良好,线性相关系数为0.995 6;最小检出限为2.5μg/L。结论该方法具有预处理简单、分析速度快、灵敏度高等优点,适合实际案件尿样的检验。     

A survey of extraction techniques for drugs of abuse in urine

Sixty nine participants in the United Kingdom national external quality assessment scheme for drugs of abuse in urine reported details of their sample extraction technique by questionnaire. Laboratories were categorised by differences in technique and their analytical test results compared for samples containing D-amfetamine 0.4 (4) and 0.8 (3) mg/l, morphine 0.4 (4) and 0.8 (4)mg/l, and benzoylecgonine 0.15/0.2 (2) and 0.45/0.5 (4) mg/l. Values in parentheses are numbers of samples. For amfetamine, there was no significant difference in the frequency of true positive results between liquid-liquid or solid phase extraction and the Toxi-Lab A system at 0.8 mg/l. Toxi-Lab A gave significantly fewer positives when operating below its specified threshold at 0.4 mg/l. Paradoxically, laboratories using >5 ml urine volume performed less well. Acidification of the extract before volume reduction gave significantly more true positives. For extraction of morphine, solid phase systems significantly outperformed both liquid-liquid and the Toxi-Lab A system at both 0.8 and 0.4 mg/l. No significant differences between extraction techniques were demonstrated for analysis of benzoylecgonine.     

体内海洛因代谢产物的分析研究

本文介绍了从海洛因成瘾者尿中提取净化和定性定量分析海洛因主要代谢产物单乙酰吗啡和吗啡的方法．阳性尿以乙基吗啡为内标．水解后液－液提取或液－固提取，经衍生化后采用ＧＣ／ＭＳ，ＧＣ／ＦＩＤ，ＧＣ／ＮＰＤ法分析，方法简便、准确、灵敏、重现性好．应用本法对八十余例吸毒成瘾者尿样进行测定，取得了令人满意的结果．     

固相萃取-气相色谱法检测生物检材中斑蝥素

目的建立固相萃取-气相色谱法检测生物检材中斑蝥素的方法。方法采用HLB固相萃取柱提取,气相色谱-内标法检测。结果斑蝥素在0.1～200mg/L范围内呈良好的线性关系,相关系数为0.999以上;精密度（RSD）小于5%。对于添加血样,方法检出限为0.05μg/mL,加标回收率范围为93.03%～98.29%。结论该方法操作简便、快速、灵敏,提取回收率高,提取物含杂质较少,可用于实际案件中全血和尿样中斑蝥素的检测。     

Comparison of results for quantitative determination of morphine by radioimmunoassay, enzyme immunoassay, and spectrofluorometry.

The quantitative results (accuracy and precision) for determination of opiates by radioimmunoassay (RIA), enzyme immunoassay (EMIT), and spectrofluorometry on split samples are compared. A variety of physiological samples were studied, including random urine from a methadone maintenance clinic and postmortem urine, blood, bile, brain, and lung tissue from heroin-induced or heroin-related deaths. The opiate concentrations detected by the two immunoassay methods were in good agreement with each other in the absence of interfering substances which are believed to react with the antimorphine antibodies. The immunoassay results were in agreement within the relative standard deviation with the fluorometry results in 55% of the urine samples and 80% of the blood samples. The immunological methods are superior to fluorometry for quantitation of morphine in urine samples due to quenching interferences in fluorometry from urine. They were comparable to fluorometry for quantitation of morphine in blood samples.     

Screening for the presence of drugs in serum and urine using different separation modes of capillary electrophoresis

Capillary electrophoresis (CE) is a modern separation technique that has some distinct advantages for toxicological analysis, such as a high efficiency, fast analysis, flexibility, and complementary separation mechanisms to chromatographic methods. CE can be applied in various modes, which each have a different separation mechanism or selectivity. The most common mode is capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE), in which charged analytes migrate in a buffer under the influence of an electric field. In micellar electrokinetic chromatography (MEKC), micelles are added to the buffer which interact with the analytes. MEKC can also be used for the separation of neutral compounds. In non-aqueous CE (NACE), the aqueous buffer is replaced by a background of electrolytes in organic solvents. A sample that needs to be screened can easily be analyzed subsequently by these CE modes using the same instrumentation.The aim of the study was to develop procedures for the analysis of basic and acidic drugs in serum and urine using CZE, MEKC, and NACE. A test mixture that consisted of six basic and six acidic compounds was used to study the separation behavior of five CE methods. The results showed that three methods (based on CZE, MEKC, and NACE) were suitable for the analysis of basic compounds and three methods (based on CZE and MEKC) for the analysis of acidic compounds.For the extraction of analytes from serum and urine, a solid-phase extraction (SPE) and a liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) method were compared. Both SPE and LLE methods provided clean extracts after extraction of the basic compounds from serum and urine. The extracts of acidic compounds contained more matrix interferences, especially for urine. The SPE method had some advantages compared to LLE, as it lead to cleaner extracts and higher peaks, and as it elutes basic and acidic compounds in one fraction.The potentials and pitfalls of the various methods for screening purposes in analytical toxicology are discussed.     

Research of the extraction method of morphine from biological fluids

A solid-phase extraction method of morphine from urine and blood has introduced. The effect of 5 SPE columns, 3 eluents and pH on morphine recovery has been investigated systematically. Derivative GC was used as a method of detection. The result showed that the column and the eluent of such as GDX-301, GDX-403 and C18 chloroform:isopropanol (9:1) had good behaviors to extraction of morphine. When GDX-301 was used as a sorbent, the recovery of morphine from urine was above 90% at pH 9, then went down with the increase of pH. While the recovery from blood was growing with the increase of pH, which reached above 90% in strong alkaline. The extraction method is simple, inexpensive, efficient and reproducible, which provides an effective and practical method to extract morphine and similar illicit drugs from biological fluids.     

The comparison of toluene determination between headspace-solid phase microextraction and headspace methods in glue-sniffer's blood and urine samples

An accurate and simple method was developed to determine the level of toluene in urine and blood quantitatively by using the gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) with headspace--solid phase microextraction (HS-SPME) technique. An assembly of SPME with a replaceable extraction fiber, coated with 100 microm polydimethylsiloxane, was used. The detection limit of toluene in blood and urine with HS-SPME technique was 10 times higher than that with headspace (HS) technique. To compare the HS-SPME with HS technique for the determination of toluene in biological fluids, blood and urine samples from glue sniffers were analyzed by both methods. The level of toluene by the two techniques was highly correlated: the correlation coefficient (r2) between the two sets of values were 0.98 and 0.96 in urine and blood, respectively.     

The detection of hydromorphone in urine specimens with high morphine concentrations

A previous study suggested that small amounts of morphine are metabolically converted to hydromorphone. In the present study, morphine positive urine specimens obtained from a postmortem laboratory and a random urinalysis program were tested for morphine, codeine, hydromorphone, hydrocodone, oxymorphone, and oxycodone to assess the possibility that small amounts of hydromorphone are produced from the metabolism of morphine. The opioids were analyzed by gas chromatography-mass spectrometry as their respective trimethylsilyl derivatives following solid phase extraction. The limit of detection for hydromorphone was 5 ng/mL. A total of 73 morphine positive urine specimens were analyzed, with morphine concentrations ranging from 131 to 297,000 ng/mL. Hydromorphone was present at a concentration > or =5 ng/mL in 36 of these specimens at concentrations ranging from 0.02% to 12% of the morphine concentration. Hydrocodone was not detected in these specimens at the assay detection limit of 25 ng/mL. These results support earlier work suggesting that the detection of hydromorphone in urine specimens does not necessarily mean that exogenous hydromorphone or hydrocodone was used.     

微波衍生化和GC/MS/MS技术分析血、尿中的吗啡

目的建立了血、尿等生物检材中海洛因代谢产物吗啡的定性分析方法。方法以丙酸酐为衍生化剂,采用微波衍生化技术结合GC/MS/MS进行分析。结果当CID电压为0.9V时,衍生化物的母离子与子离子碎片信息丰富,碎片为m/e268、324、342。结论此方法科学、准确,灵敏度高,能满足吸食海洛因类、吗啡类毒品人员的生物检材的检验要求。     

固相萃取／LC-MS／MS测定尿液中吗啡类药物

目的 建立尿液中吗啡类药物的固相萃取／LC—MS／MS方法。方法采用OASIS MCX3cc（60mg）固相萃取柱进行提取,应用LC—MS／MS方法进行检测,运用保留时间和MRM方式对尿液中吗啡类药物及其代谢物进行定性定量分析。结果磷酸盐缓冲液pH4．0时,海洛因、6-MAM、可待因、吗啡、M3G的固相萃取回收率分别达64．33％-70．21％,96．95％～117．57％,83．60％～123．63％,68．82％～91．03％,94．64％～107．33％;最低检测限（LOD）分别为5、10、5、5、2pg,线性范围0．005～10μg／mL;相关系数分别为0．9998、0．9958、0．9992、0．9994、0．9997。结论本文所建方法,适用于尿液中吗啡类药物的分析。     

Evaluation of a method for simultaneous quantification of codeine, ethylmorphine and morphine in blood.

Codeine, ethylmorphine and morphine are the most commonly detected opiates in forensic blood samples in Norway. A method for the simultaneous quantification of these opiates utilizing solid phase extraction and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry has been evaluated. The detection limits were 0.026 mumol/l for codeine, 0.025 mumol/l for ethylmorphine and 0.032 mumol/l for morphine (corresponding to 7.8, 7.8 and 9.1 micrograms/l, respectively). The analytical variations at concentrations of 1.0 mumol/l codeine, 1.0 mumol/l ethylmorphine and 0.5 mumol/l morphine were less than 5%.     

超声辅助固相萃取-HPLC法测定不同地区缴获鸦片样品中生物碱

目的本文建立了超声辅助固相萃取-HPLC法定量测定缴获鸦片样品中吗啡、可待因、蒂巴因、罂粟碱、那可汀5种生物碱并同时检出6种未知化合物的方法。采用主成分分析法区分不同地区缴获的鸦片样品。方法采用超声辅助固相萃取法提取生物碱,XDB-C18（5μm×4.6mm×250mm）色谱柱,流动相为10mM的1-庚烷磺酸钠（pH 3.2）和乙腈,梯度洗脱,紫外检测器检测。结果该方法的定量限为0.58~2.78 mg/kg。添加水平在0.2～1.5mg/mL范围内,平均加标回收率为81.0%～99.2%,相对标准偏差为1.6%～5.0%。结论本方法重现性好、定量准确,满足定量检测鸦片中生物碱含量并对不同产地鸦片进行分类的需要。     

Determination of phenol and o-cresol by GC/MS in a fatal poisoning case

A fatality due to the ingestion of solution containing phenol and o-cresol is described. The pathological findings were typical of acute substantial poisoning. Blood, urine and stomach content were obtained during post mortem examinations. Phenol and o-cresol were identified using GC/MS. The extractions from autopsy materials were obtained as follows: by gel permeation with cyclohexane/dichloromethane from stomach content, by solid phase extraction (SPE) from urine and by deproteinization with acetonitrile from blood. The phenol and o-cresol concentrations in the samples were found, respectively, as follows: 115.0 and 5.0 microg/g in the stomach contents, 58.3 and 1.9 microg/ml in the blood, 3.3 and 20.5 microg/ml in the urine. Distributions of phenol in fatal poisonings have been reported, but, usually, colorimetry was used as the analytical method and it cannot exclude the interference of other phenolic compounds.     

The detection of acetylcodeine and 6-acetylmorphine in opiate positive urines

Acetylcodeine (AC), an impurity of illicit heroin synthesis, was investigated as a urinary biomarker for detection of illicit heroin use. One hundred criminal justice urine specimens that had been confirmed positive by GC/MS for morphine at concentrations >5000 ng/ml were analyzed for AC, 6-acetylmorphine (6AM), codeine, norcodeine and morphine. The GC/MS analysis was performed by solid phase extraction and derivatization with propionic anhydride. Total codeine and morphine concentrations were determined by acid hydrolysis and liquid/liquid extraction. AC was detected in 37 samples at concentrations ranging from 2 to 290 ng/ml (median, 11 ng/ml). 6AM was also present in these samples at concentrations ranging from 49 to 12 600 ng/ml (median, 740 ng/ml). Of the 63 specimens negative for AC, 36 were positive for 6AM at concentrations ranging from 12 to 4600 ng/ml (median, 124 ng/ml). When detected, the AC concentrations were an average of 2.2% (0.25 to 10.2%) of the 6AM concentrations. There was a positive relationship between AC concentrations and 6AM concentrations (r=0.878). Due to its very low concentration in urine, AC was found to be a much less reliable biomarker for illicit heroin use than 6AM in workplace or criminal justice urine screening programs. However, AC detection could play an important role in determining if addicts in heroin maintenance programs are supplementing their supervised diacetylmorphine doses with illicit heroin.     

柱切换HPLC法分析尿中吗啡和O^6—单乙酰吗啡的研究

目的建立用柱切换HPLC技术分析尿中吗啡和06-单乙酰吗啡的方法.方法尿样用硼砂缓冲液(pH9.2)稀释后进入预处理柱(YWG-C18,33mm×5.0mm,10μm),用H2O洗去杂质,再用CH3OHH2O(6040)将被分析组分洗脱进入分析柱(Lichrospher(R)100CN,125mm×4.0mm,5μm),分析流动相为CH3OH磷酸盐缓冲液(pH6.86)=2278.紫外检测器波长为286nm.结果尿中吗啡和06--单乙酰吗啡的线性范围分别为50～1 600n/ml和100～1 600n/ml.吗啡和O6--单乙酰吗啡的精密度均小于4%.吗啡和O6-单乙酰吗啡的检测限均为40n/ml.结论用CSHPLC测定尿中吗啡和O6-单乙酰吗啡,方法准确、灵敏、快速、简便.     

SPME结合衍生化检测尿液中吗啡成份

目的　建立尿液中吗啡检验的方法。方法　利用固相微萃取头富集尿液中吗啡 ,经醋酸酐衍生后进行GC/MS分析。结果　利用此方法可检测到吗啡含量为 5ug/ml的尿样。结论　该方法可用于吸毒人员尿液中吗啡的快速检验。     

SPE-LC-MS/MS法测定尿液与血液中海洛因3种代谢物

目的采用SPE-LC-MS/MS方法,同时检测尿液与血液中海洛因主要代谢物3-β-D-葡萄糖醛酸吗啡(M3G)、吗啡和O6-单乙酰吗啡(O6)。方法采用BAKERBONDTMspe Octadecyl(C18)进行提取,应用LC-MS/MS方法检测并通过MRM及内标法进行量化。结果尿液中M3G、吗啡、O6-单乙酰吗啡的最低检测限(LOD)分别为1.24pg、6.71pg、0.47pg;回收率依次为82.25±12.25%、93.75±13.25%、88.70±11.90%。血液中M3G、吗啡、O6-单乙酰吗啡的最低检测限分别为1.50pg、8.21pg、0.52pg。回收率依次为89.85±21.15%、73.70±17.90%、90.10±3.90%。结论本文所建方法同时适用于尿液与血液中海洛因主要代谢物M3G、吗啡、O6-单乙酰吗啡的提取、净化、分析。