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Part of the B complex group of water soluble vitamins, vitamin B7 is involved in various metabolic processes within the body. It is a small polar carboxylic acid which can present challenges in bioana...
Urine drug testing to support pain management is a mainstay of the clinical toxicology laboratory. Reduced reimbursement has continued to put increasing pressure on laboratories. Many toxicology labs ...
Dilute and shoot (D/S) is the most common form of sample preparation for the analysis of drugs of abuse in urine. High analyte cut-offs combined with sensitive mass spectrometers allow substantial sam...
Simultaneous fat-soluble vitamin testing can be challenging for a variety of reasons: solubility limitations of the analytes, high levels of protein binding and wide variation of concentration ranges ...
Forensic, toxicology, and clinical laboratories conduct broad spectrum whole blood (WB) screening to identify potential drug exposures. Extraction of drugs of abuse (DoA) panels from WB can be challen...
The ISOLUTE® family of cation exchange sorbents are used to extract organic cations (basic compounds capable of exhibiting a positive charge) from both aqueous and non aqueous matrixes. Although extra...
Hair is a fundamental matrix for drug analysis showing historical use due to increased compound stability over prolonged periods of time compared to other more traditional matrices. A single exposure ...
Oral fluid testing is gaining approval in the forensic toxicology community as a suitable tool to supplement urine and blood testing where misuse of drugs is suspected. A quick, dignified specimen can...
Urine drug testing to support pain management is a mainstay of the clinical toxicology laboratory. Reduced reimbursement has continued to put increasing pressure on laboratories. Many toxicology labs ...
Whole blood continues to be a valuable tool in forensic toxicology for the immediate and near-term detection of illicit drugs, and in cases where no other sample is available. Screening drugs of abuse...