Date-rape drugs given to victims through drinks without their knowledge in drug-facilitated sexual assaults and thefts (money, property and body organs), are important threats for the public. Detection in beverage residues gains importance, since some of them can be quickly eliminated from the body, till the victim understands what he/she has experienced, goes to the hospital and gives a urine sample for analysis. Here, date-rape drugs; ketamine, thiopental, phenobarbital, zolpidem, phenytoin and zopiclone were analyzed simultaneously in 1.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11, a urea-based peptidomimetic, has been widely used in recent years for PET imaging of patients with prostate cancer. Since it has short half-life and should be in-house synthesized, synthesis conditions may affect quality and in vivo behavior of [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11. Therefore in this study we aimed to develop an alternative, simple and validated HPLC method to test chemical and radiochemical purity of [68Ga]Ga-PSMA-11 for clinical routine.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFCOVID-19 has been a threat throughout the world since December 2019. In attempts to discover an urgent treatment regime for COVID-19, hydroxychloroquine (HCQ) and chloroquine (CQ) have been on solidarity clinical trial. However, many countries have pulled HCQ and CQ from their COVID-19 treatment regimens recently, some countries still continue using them for patients who have previously started HCQ and CQ and they may complete their course under the supervision of a doctor.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFDipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors, so-called gliptins, constitute a fairly novel class of oral hypoglycemic agents. The development and validation of an automated online SPE-LC-UV method to determine intact sitagliptin, saxagliptin, vildagliptin and metformin simultaneously in human urine samples were performed. For the two-dimensional chromatographic separation, a Gemini C18 (250.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Chromatogr Sci
October 2017
A fully automated and validated 2D online solid-phase extraction (SPE) high-performance liquid chromatographic method was described for the direct simultaneous determination of clenbuterol (CLEN) and doxazosin (DOX) in spiked human plasma samples. Chromatographic separation of the analytes was achieved by column-switching. SPE column packed with restricted access material for depleting matrix and a reversed phase HPLC column for eluting analytes were used with UV detection on 250 nm.
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