PMID- 34894090 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220411 LR - 20220411 IS - 1942-7611 (Electronic) IS - 1942-7603 (Linking) VI - 14 IP - 4 DP - 2022 Apr TI - Recent applications of phosphodiesterase (PDE5) inhibition assays for detecting adulterated sexual enhancement products. PG - 757-761 LID - 10.1002/dta.3209 [doi] AB - Consumer products marketed for sexual enhancement are frequently adulterated with erectile dysfunction (ED) drugs and analogs; consuming these undisclosed adulterants can pose significant health hazards. Although ED drugs/analogs have unpredictable and diverse structures that pose challenges for detecting them, they all share the ability to inhibit phosphodiesterase-5 (PDE5) activity, a pharmacological mechanism responsible for their effects. Consequently, several PDE5 inhibition assays have been recently applied as screening methods to detect ED drug/analogs in products. Here, the successes and challenges are highlighted for screening sexual enhancement products by PDE5 inhibition assays. CI - Published 2021. This article is a U.S. Government work and is in the public domain in the USA. FAU - Santillo, Michael F AU - Santillo MF AUID- ORCID: 0000-0001-8087-5859 AD - Division of Toxicology, Office of Applied Research and Safety Assessment, Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Laurel, Maryland, USA. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20211215 PL - England TA - Drug Test Anal JT - Drug testing and analysis JID - 101483449 RN - 0 (Phosphodiesterase 5 Inhibitors) RN - EC 3.1.4.- (Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases) SB - IM MH - *Erectile Dysfunction/drug therapy MH - Humans MH - Male MH - *Phosphodiesterase 5 Inhibitors/pharmacology MH - Phosphoric Diester Hydrolases EDAT- 2021/12/12 06:00 MHDA- 2022/04/12 06:00 CRDT- 2021/12/11 06:26 PHST- 2021/11/09 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2021/10/05 00:00 [received] PHST- 2021/11/19 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2021/12/12 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/04/12 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2021/12/11 06:26 [entrez] AID - 10.1002/dta.3209 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Drug Test Anal. 2022 Apr;14(4):757-761. doi: 10.1002/dta.3209. Epub 2021 Dec 15.