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Rapid determination of five common toxic alkaloids in blood by UPLC–MRM–IDA–EPI: Application to poisoning case.
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Legal Medicine . Jul2023, Vol. 63, pN.PAG-N.PAG. 1p. - Publication Year :
- 2023
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Abstract
- • An UPLC–MS/MS method was developed for qualitative and quantitative analysis of five common toxic alkaloids. • Analyses of five common alkaloids in human postmortem blood were performed. • The method could be useful for forensic toxicological analysis. Toxic alkaloids are typically found in herbal medicines and have strong pharmacological effects and a broad therapeutic spectrum. On the other hand, toxic alkaloids exert toxicological activities in vivo ; as such they have a narrow therapeutic window and can induce poisoning due to incorrect dose or misuse. In this view, there is an urgent need to develop a rapid and sensitive assay to detect these toxic alkaloids. This study developed a method for determining five common toxic alkaloids in blood, including brucine, strychnine, aconitine, mesaconitine, and hypaconitine using ultra-high liquid chromatography-tandem quadrupole/linear ion trap mass spectrometry (QTRAP UPLC–MS/MS). The analytes in this investigation were extracted with ether and detected using multiple reaction monitoring (MRM)-information-dependent acquisition (IDA)-enhanced product ion (EPI) scanning modes. SKF 525A served as the internal standard (IS). The approach demonstrated excellent linearity, with a correlation coefficient (R) > 0.9964, and satisfactory sensitivity, with the limit of detection (LOD) of 0.31 ∼ 3.26 ng/mL and a limit of quantification (LOQ) of 1.13 ∼ 11.52 ng/mL. The extraction recovery (ER) was 78.8 ∼ 116.2%, the matrix effect (ME) was −12.3 ∼ 21.2%, and the method accuracy was 0.8 ∼ 12.8%. In addition, the intra-day precision and the inter-day precision (RSD) were 0.7% ∼ 7.4% and 0.4% ∼ 13.5%, respectively. The developed approach is sensitive and efficient, and offer significant application prospect in clinical monitoring and forensic detection of poisoning. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13446223
- Volume :
- 63
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Legal Medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 164436667
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.legalmed.2023.102267