PMID- 32738526 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20210322 LR - 20210322 IS - 1873-376X (Electronic) IS - 1570-0232 (Linking) VI - 1153 DP - 2020 Sep 15 TI - Determination of ketamine, methamphetamine and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine in human hair by flash evaporation-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry. PG - 122275 LID - S1570-0232(19)31800-8 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.jchromb.2020.122275 [doi] AB - A rapid and sensitive method utilizing flash evaporation-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (FE-GC/MS) has been developed. The method is applicable to determine ketamine (KET), methamphetamine (MAMP) and 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) in human hair. Cut and weighted hair (0.30 mg) was heated at the flash evaporation temperature of 350  degrees C. KET, MAMP and MDMA were released into a capillary column for GC/MS analysis and produced fragment ions in SIM mode. Validation of the method included evaluation of linearity, sensitivity, accuracy, precision and repeatability. Linearity ranged from 2 to 300 ng/mg for KET in hair and 2 to 200 ng/mg for MAMP and MDMA in hair with the correlation coefficients all greater than 0.998. Limits of detection were 0.7 ng/mg and limits of quantification were 2.0 ng/mg of hair for KET, MAMP and MDMA. The precision ranged from 1.57% to 7.75% for KET, 1.49% to 7.10% for MAMP and 1.84% to 8.31% for MDMA. The recovery ranged from 102.1% to 110.9% for KET, 99.3% to 108.0% for MAMP and 89.5% to 112.6% for MDMA. Six authentic hair samples from known drug abusers and three drug-free hair samples from volunteers who had never used drugs were successfully analyzed. Compared with traditional time-consuming and hair-comsuming pretreatment method, FE-GC/MS was a faster, simpler and low sample consumption method for the determination of KET, MAMP and MDMA in human hair. CI - Copyright (c) 2020 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Liu, Yanshuxian AU - Liu Y AD - College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China. FAU - Fan, Yilei AU - Fan Y AD - Key Laboratory of Drug Prevention and Control Technology of Zhejiang Province, Zhejiang Police College, Hangzhou, PR China. FAU - Huang, Zhongping AU - Huang Z AD - College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China. Electronic address: zhongpingh@126.com. FAU - Liu, Huijun AU - Liu H AD - College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China. FAU - Wang, Lili AU - Wang L AD - College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China. FAU - Shen, Zhenlu AU - Shen Z AD - College of Chemical Engineering, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, China. FAU - Watanabe, Ichi AU - Watanabe I AD - Frontier Laboratories Ltd., Fukushima 9638862, Japan. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20200716 PL - Netherlands TA - J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci JT - Journal of chromatography. B, Analytical technologies in the biomedical and life sciences JID - 101139554 RN - 44RAL3456C (Methamphetamine) RN - 690G0D6V8H (Ketamine) RN - KE1SEN21RM (N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine) SB - IM MH - Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry/*methods MH - Hair/*chemistry MH - Humans MH - Ketamine/*analysis MH - Limit of Detection MH - Linear Models MH - Methamphetamine/*analysis MH - N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine/*analysis MH - Reproducibility of Results MH - Substance Abuse Detection OTO - NOTNLM OT - 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) OT - Flash evaporation-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (FE-GC/MS) OT - Human hair OT - Ketamine (KET) OT - Methamphetamine (MAMP) COIS- Declaration of Competing Interest The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in this paper. EDAT- 2020/08/02 06:00 MHDA- 2021/03/23 06:00 CRDT- 2020/08/02 06:00 PHST- 2019/12/06 00:00 [received] PHST- 2020/06/02 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2020/07/12 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2020/08/02 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2021/03/23 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2020/08/02 06:00 [entrez] AID - S1570-0232(19)31800-8 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.jchromb.2020.122275 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2020 Sep 15;1153:122275. doi: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2020.122275. Epub 2020 Jul 16.