Clinical and Forensic Toxicology: The Latest Updates
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247).
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 85475
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Interests: toxicology; forensic toxicology; drugs of abuse; legal medicine; hepatotoxicity
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Dear Colleagues,
Within the field of analytical toxicology, there are two distinct disciplines involved in the testing of human biological matrices and non-biological specimens: clinical and forensic toxicology.
The difference between both specialties lies in the final use of the obtained results. In clinical toxicology, analytical results support clinical management, selection of an appropriate treatment, diagnosis, prognosis, and eventual disclosure of drug intoxication in the emergency room. In addition, drugs of abuse testing in maintenance treatments is also an area of special interest. In forensic toxicology, the obtained results have medico-legal implications related to eventual drug contribution to death or to possible impairment or to behavioral changes linked to a crime.
There are numerous areas of mutual interest between clinical and forensic toxicology. Indeed, most of the advances in the clinical setting come from investigation in forensic laboratories. Owing to those advances, the number of detectable pharmacological and psychoactive substances and/or metabolites and the number of conventional and non-conventional biological matrices to be investigated is continuously increasing. Furthermore, technological innovations in the field of sample pre-treatment and in the instrumental methodologies has improved levels of precision, accuracy, sensitivity, and specificity of quali-quantitative analyses in both disciplines.
The aim of this Special Issue is to collect original and review articles to provide the latest updates in the field of clinical and forensic toxicology.
Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
- Determination of cannabinoids in biological matrices for clinical (medical cannabis) and forensic (recreational cannabis) purposes
- Development and validation of analytical methods for the identification and quantification of New Psychoactive Substances (NPS) in conventional and non-conventional biological matrices.
- Studies and updated reviews on drugs of abuse-related toxicity, acute intoxications, and fatalities.
- Metabolic pathways of new synthetic opioids, their potency, and studies of incubation with human hepatocytes to simulate in vivo metabolism.
Prof. Dr. Francesco P. Busardó
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Clinical toxicology
- Forensic toxicology
- Drugs of abuse
- Acute intoxications
- Fatalities
- New Psychoactive Substances (NPS)
- Liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS/MS)
- Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
- Gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS) and Gas chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS)
- NPS-related toxicity
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