PMID- 35298928 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20220407 LR - 20220407 IS - 1873-3573 (Electronic) IS - 0039-9140 (Linking) VI - 243 DP - 2022 Jun 1 TI - Portable fully automated oral fluid extraction device for illegal drugs. PG - 123389 LID - S0039-9140(22)00185-0 [pii] LID - 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123389 [doi] AB - Currently used methods for in-field determination of illegal drugs involve various test kits based mainly on the immunoassay technique, where the presence of a compound of interest is assessed by antibody-antigen reaction and manifested by observable color change. Despite being accepted and widely used by police forces to test the presence of illegal drugs in a suspect person, these tests often suffer from unreliable results (high level of false-positive and/or false-negative) due to the cross-reactivity and difficulties with quantification. Therefore, we have developed a portable capillary electrophoresis instrument to determine illegal drugs in oral fluid collected from a suspected person. However, this drug analyzer has still required manual sample preparation. Therefore, this research aimed to develop, test, and validate a fully automated sample pretreatment (purification, extraction, pre-concentration) prototype compatible with the capillary electrophoresis drug of abuse analyzer and suitable for confirmatory analysis by mass spectrometry. The cotton swab from Salivette(R) oral fluid collector was examined and integrated into the fully automated extractor prototype. The recoveries for the automated extractor were between 18 and 20%, with repeatabilities within 5-11% for 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA), 3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine (MDA), 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-ethylamphetamine (MDEA), cocaine (COC), and cocaethylene (COET). The developed extraction device was easy to use even for unskilled persons, required minimal liquid handling, and was applicable to use in field conditions. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved. FAU - Ruzicka, Martin AU - Ruzicka M AD - Tallinn University of Technology, School of Science, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia. FAU - Kaljurand, Mihkel AU - Kaljurand M AD - Tallinn University of Technology, School of Science, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia. FAU - Gorbatsova, Jelena AU - Gorbatsova J AD - Tallinn University of Technology, School of Science, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia. FAU - Vaher, Merike AU - Vaher M AD - Tallinn University of Technology, School of Science, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia. FAU - Mazina-Sinkar, Jekaterina AU - Mazina-Sinkar J AD - Tallinn University of Technology, School of Science, Department of Chemistry and Biotechnology, Akadeemia tee 15, 12618, Tallinn, Estonia. Electronic address: jekaterina.mazina@taltech.ee. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20220312 PL - Netherlands TA - Talanta JT - Talanta JID - 2984816R RN - 0 (Illicit Drugs) RN - KE1SEN21RM (N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine) SB - IM MH - Electrophoresis, Capillary/methods MH - Humans MH - *Illicit Drugs/analysis MH - Mass Spectrometry MH - *N-Methyl-3,4-methylenedioxyamphetamine MH - Substance Abuse Detection/methods OTO - NOTNLM OT - Automated oral fluid extractor OT - Capillary electrophoresis OT - Drug analyzer OT - Fluorescence OT - Illegal drugs OT - Oral fluid EDAT- 2022/03/18 06:00 MHDA- 2022/04/08 06:00 CRDT- 2022/03/17 20:12 PHST- 2021/12/27 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/03/08 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/03/11 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/03/18 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/04/08 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/03/17 20:12 [entrez] AID - S0039-9140(22)00185-0 [pii] AID - 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123389 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Talanta. 2022 Jun 1;243:123389. doi: 10.1016/j.talanta.2022.123389. Epub 2022 Mar 12.