About the Book:

Adapting modern advances in analytical techniques to daily laboratory practices challenges many toxicologists and clinical laboratory and pharmaceutical scientists. The Handbook of Analytical Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Toxicology helps you abreast of the innovative changes that can make your laboratory – and the studies undertaken in it – a success. This volume simplifies your search for appropriate techniques, describes recent contributions from leading investigators, and provides valuable evaluations and advice.

Features

·         Analyzes and summarizes current developments in analytical techniques and provides valuable advice on applying these advances to your workplace

·         Assesses the value of alternative biological specimens and explains how to adapt new procedures to analyze them

·         Weighs the advantages and disadvantages of using various analytical techniques and how they apply to the analytes being tested

·         Includes more than 100 figures and 50 tables

Contents:

1.    Drug Monitoring by Capillary Electrophoresis

2.    Toxicology through a looking Glass: Stereochemical Questions and Some Answers

3.    DNA Analysis

4.    Supercritical Fluid Chromatography

5.    Supercritical Fluid Extraction as a Sample Preparation Tool in Analytical Toxicology

6.    Analysis of Clinical Specimens Using Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

7.    Fourier Transform Infrared Studies for Drug Hair Analysis

8.    Solid Phase Extraction Disks: Second-Generation Technology for Drug Extractions

9.    Automation, Direct-Sample-Analysis, and Microcolumn Liquid Chromatography

10. Coupled Mass Spectrometric-Chromatographic Systems

11. Pentamer Formation Assay Based on Drug Functional Mechanisms

12. Receptor Assays in the Clinical Laboratory

13. Immunoassays and Immunoassay Analyzers for Analytical Toxicology

14. Hair Analysis for Detection of Drugs of Abuse

15. Sweat It Out

16. Drug Testing of Meconium: Determination of Vitreous Humor

17. Global Drug Monitoring Harmonization

18. Saliva Drug Analysis

19. Drug Monitoring: Modern Approaches to Quality Assurance

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