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JOURNAL OF CHROMATOGRAPHY B-ANALYTICAL TECHNOLOGIES IN THE BIOMEDICAL AND LIFE SCIENCES
Volume 975, Issue -, Pages 65-76Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jchromb.2014.10.028
Keywords
Toxic plants; Multiresidue screening; Forensic toxicology; Ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS)
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Plant poisonings have left their mark on history and still cause many deaths, whether intentional or accidental. The means to show toxicological evidence of such poisonings should be implemented with great care. This article presents a technique for measuring thirty-nine toxic principles of plant origin in the blood, covering a large amount of toxins from local or exotic plants: alpha-lobeline, alpha-solanine, aconitine, ajmaline, atropine, brucine, cephalomannine, colchicine, convallatoxin, cymarine, cytisine, digitoxin, digoxin, emetine, gelsemine, ibogaine, jervine, kavain, lanatoside C, lupanine, mitragynine, neriifolin, oleandrin, ouabain, paclitaxel, physostigmine, pilocarpine, podophyllotoxin, proscillaridin A, reserpine, retrorsine, ricinine, scopolamine, senecionine, sparteine, strophanthidin, strychnine, veratridine and yohimbine. Analysis was carried out using an original ultra-high performance liquid chromatography separation coupled with tandem mass spectrometry detection. Extraction was a standard solid phase extraction performed on Oasis (R) HLB cartridge. Thirty-four of the thirty-nine compounds were put through a validation procedure. The assay was linear in the calibration curve range from 0.5 or 5 mu g/L to 1000 mu g/L according to the compounds. The method is sensitive (LOD from 0.1 to 1.6 mu g/L). The within-day precision of the assay was less than 22.5% at the LLOQ, and the between-day precision was less than 21.5% for 10 mu g/L for all the compounds included. The assay accuracy was in the range of 87.4 to 119.8% for the LLOQ, The extraction recovery and matrix effect ranged from 30 to 106% and from 30 to 14%, respectively. It has proven useful and effective in several difficult forensic cases. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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