Sensitive and rapid quantification of the cannabinoid receptor agonist naphthalen-1-yl-(1-pentylindol-3-yl)methanone (JWH-018) in human serum by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

Autor: Jens-Peter Weller, Thomas Rothämel, Jörg Teske, A. Fieguth, Hans Dieter Tröger, Yvonne Schulz
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences. 878(27)
ISSN: 1873-376X
Popis: The current paper describes a validated method for the detection and quantification of naphthalen-1-yl-(1-pentylindol-3-yl)methanone (JWH-018), an ingredient of a herbal mixture called "Spice", by means of HPLC-ESI-MS-MS in serum. Lower limit of detection and lower limit of quantification were 0.07 and 0.21 ng/ml, respectively. In 2 subjects who consumed ca. 50 μg/kg of JWH-018 by smoking, the active ingredient was detected by means of the described method. Thereby, the serum concentrations reached values of approx. 10 ng/ml and dropped within 3 h very fast (
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