Metabolite Analysis in Forensic Toxicology Volume II
A special issue of Metabolites (ISSN 2218-1989). This special issue belongs to the section "Pharmacology and Drug Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 July 2022) | Viewed by 10864
Special Issue Editor
Interests: chromatography; mass spectrometry; drugs of abuse; gamma hydroxy butyric acid; synthetic cannabinoids; enantioselective analysis
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Dear Colleagues,
The field of Forensic Toxicology has developed enormously over the last few decades. Methodical and technological developments in sample preparations, metabolite creation, analytical techniques (i.e., high-resolution mass spectrometry), data processing (i.e., metabolomics) and the examination of new sample specimens have generated previously unthinkable possibilities. Metabolite research reflects one of the most important fields in forensic toxicology, since metabolites of well-known and new psychoactive substances can assist in the interpretation of forensic cases in many ways, i.e., by allowing abuse to be detected, widening the detection window, allowing estimation of the time of use or by estimation of the pharmacological effect at the time of sampling.
This Special Issue of Metabolites, "Metabolite Analysis in Forensic Toxicology", will be dedicated to metabolite research within this field. Topics will include, but are not limited to: in vivo and in vitro techniques of metabolite synthesis; identification and/or quantification of metabolites with biological and/or forensic relevance, possibly in relation to the functional genomics (pharmacogenomics); the pharmacokinetics of drugs of abuse and their metabolites; pharmacological testing of metabolites; detection of metabolites in different matrices (i.e., hair analysis), forensic applications of the direct quantification of metabolites or untargeted metabolomic methods. Manuscripts dealing with other pertinent and challenging issues are also highly desired.
Dr. Cornelius Hess
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- metabolites
- metabolomics
- drugs of abuse
- new psychoactive substances
- toxicology
- pharmacogenomics
- pharmakokinetics
- high-resolution mass spectrometry
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