30-Jul-2010
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Category : Drug Testing
Tags: Analytical, Assays, Characterization, Control, Doping, Drug, Mass, Prohibited, Spectrometry, Sports, Substances, Testing
Product Description
Mass spectrometry is a major tool to characterize, identify, and detect hundreds of known and unknown drugs. This book provides a detailed overview about the mass spectrometry of numerous classes of therapeutics and agents relevant to doping control laboratories, the necessity of various analyzers enabling the detection of low- and high molecular weight drugs as well as the discrimination between endogenously produced and synthetically derived compounds. It adds perspective to the health and ethical issues of doping in sports, and the role mass spectrometry plays in both detecting unknown drugs and protecting athletes. Scientists and researchers involved in drug design, metabolite identification, and environmental analysis, and sports medicine and drug research bodies will utilize this resource.
Mass Spectrometry in Sports Drug Testing: Characterization of Prohibited Substances and Doping Control Analytical Assays
30-Jan-2010
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Product Description
Many advances have been made since the publication of Drug Testing in Hair. The mid-1990s witnessed the progress in cannabis detection while the late 1990s focused on benzodiazepines detection and the applications in doping control. In more recent years, toxicologists centered on the detection in hair of a single exposure and the related applications in drug-facilitated crimes. Presenting these topics as well as the latest findings from the international community, Analytical and Practical Aspects of Drug Testing in Hair reviews all new developments, the validation of analytical procedures, and the interpretation of data.
Written by well-known, international authors, this comprehensive reference provides practical coverage of the best drug testing techniques and examines the drugs themselves. Some of the applications discussed include doping, drug-facilitated crime investigating, workplace testing, and the granting of drivers’ licenses. The authors describe specific drugs, such as opiates, cocaine, and cannabis, and discuss the different testing methods for them. The book also covers postmortem toxicology, pitfalls created by passive exposure, and testing for metals, including inductively coupled plasma spectrometry (ICP-MS), hair multielementary analysis, and the new speciation analysis.
A complete, up-to-date resource that explains numerous drug testing techniques, Analytical and Practical Aspects of Drug Testing in Hair provides useful information for toxicologists, forensic scientists, sports medicine specialists, and pathologists.
Analytical and Practical Aspects of Drug Testing in Hair
