PMID- 18970230
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
DCOM- 20091214
LR  - 20081030
IS  - 1873-3573 (Electronic)
IS  - 0039-9140 (Linking)
VI  - 67
IP  - 4
DP  - 2005 Oct 15
TI  - Rapid drug-screening of clandestine tablets by MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry.
PG  - 718-24
LID - 10.1016/j.talanta.2005.03.013 [doi]
AB  - A novel method for the rapid screening of clandestine tablets for drugs by 
      MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry is described. In this method, cetrimonium bromide 
      (CTAB), a surfactant, is added to the conventional alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamic 
      acid (CHCA) matrix solution used in preparing the MALDI samples. This procedure 
      allows very clean mass spectra to be collected for amphetamine, methamphetamine, 
      3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), 
      caffeine, ketamine and tramadol. The method was used successfully in the rapid 
      drug-screening of some actual clandestine tablets, which had been seized from the 
      illicit market, and can serve as a good complementary method to GC/MS for use in 
      forensic analysis.
FAU - Su, An-Kai
AU  - Su AK
AD  - Department of Chemistry, National Taiwan Normal University, 88 Sec. 4 Tingchow 
      Road, Taipei, Taiwan.
FAU - Liu, Ju-Tsung
AU  - Liu JT
FAU - Lin, Cheng-Huang
AU  - Lin CH
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PL  - Netherlands
TA  - Talanta
JT  - Talanta
JID - 2984816R
EDAT- 2008/10/31 09:00
MHDA- 2008/10/31 09:01
CRDT- 2008/10/31 09:00
PHST- 2004/11/26 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2005/03/18 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2005/03/22 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2008/10/31 09:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2008/10/31 09:01 [medline]
PHST- 2008/10/31 09:00 [entrez]
AID - S0039-9140(05)00161-X [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.talanta.2005.03.013 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - Talanta. 2005 Oct 15;67(4):718-24. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2005.03.013.