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Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom ; 21(15): 2439-46, 2007.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17610244

ABSTRACT

A new combined doping control screening method for the analysis of anabolic steroids in human urine using liquid chromatography/electrospray ionization orthogonal acceleration time-of-flight mass spectrometry (LCoaTOFMS) and gas chromatography/electron ionization orthogonal acceleration time-of-flight mass spectrometry (GCoaTOFMS) has been developed in order to acquire accurate full scan MS data to be used to detect designer steroids. The developed method allowed the detection of representative prohibited substances, in addition to steroids, at concentrations of 10 ng/mL for anabolic agents and metabolites, 30 ng/mL for corticosteroids, 500 ng/mL for stimulants and beta-blockers, 250 ng/mL for diuretics, and 200 ng/mL for narcotics. Sample preparation was based on liquid-liquid extraction of hydrolyzed human urine, and the final extract was analyzed as trimethylsilylated derivatives in GCoaTOFMS and underivatized in LCoaTOFMS in positive ion mode. The sensitivity, mass accuracy, advantages and limitations of the developed method are presented.


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Anabolic Agents/urine , Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid/methods , Designer Drugs/analysis , Doping in Sports/prevention & control , Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry/methods , Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization/methods , Steroids/urine , Humans , Reproducibility of Results , Sensitivity and Specificity
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Anal Chim Acta ; 583(2): 223-30, 2007 Feb 05.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-17386550

ABSTRACT

Hemoglobin-based oxygen carriers (HBOCs) are blood substitutes based on hemoglobin of either bovine or human origin and they can potentially be misused in elite sports to improve endurance performance. Recently, three methods have been proposed in doping control analysis to allow HBOCs screening and identification by application of electrophoresis, size-exclusion chromatography coupled with HPLC and LC coupled with tandem mass spectrometry (LC/MSMS). In view of the Athens 2004 Olympic Games, modifications were introduced in order to increase the specificity of these methods. The sample preparation protocols of the electrophoretic and SEC-HPLC methods were modified with the introduction of sequential ultra filtration steps to remove all heme containing material below 100 kDa, thus leaving only HBOCs material for analysis. Furthermore, a modification of the LC/MSMS methodology was introduced to allow full scan MS-MS spectra of peptide segments arising from the tryptic digestion of bovine HBOCs. These relatively simple methodological modifications have major impact, as far as time and cost effectiveness is concerned in doping control procedures, because they provide a useful tool in order to identify which suspect samples from the initial visual screening are due to hemolysis and exclude them from further analysis.


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Blood Substitutes/metabolism , Hemoglobins/metabolism , Oxygen/metabolism , Spectrometry, Mass, Electrospray Ionization/methods , Blood Substitutes/analysis , Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid/methods , Chromatography, Liquid/methods , Hemoglobins/analysis , Humans , Oxygen/analysis , Respiratory Transport
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