Techniques for Detection and Separation of Drugs, Metabolites and Toxicants

Dear Colleagues,

Analytical toxicology is a multidisciplinary area that involves biotechnology, pharmacology, and analytical and clinical chemistry, which aid the observation, identification, separation, and measurement of toxicants (xenobiotics) in biological fluids and other specimens to find, for example, the cause of death, toxins in foods, etc. Analytical tools are necessary for the determination of a very wide range of compounds, including chemicals, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, metals, pollutants, drugs of abuse and natural toxins, etc. Analytical toxicology incorporates a range of sample preparation and analytical techniques for detecting drugs from a variety of samples.

This Special Issue on “Techniques for the Detection and Separation of Drugs, Metabolites, and Toxicants” seeks high-quality research articles focusing on the latest novel advances in analytical toxicology for both sample preparation and instrumental techniques. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Advances in sample preparation techniques;
• Chromatographic and electrophoretic techniques;
• Mass spectrometry;
• Hyphenated techniques.

Prof. Dr. Keyller Bastos Borges
Guest Editor

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