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15 Citations
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Detection of Leachable Components from Conventional and Dental Bulk-Fill Resin Composites (High and Low Viscosity) Using Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) Method

  • Matea Lapaš Barišić,
  • Hrvoje Sarajlija,
  • Eva Klarić,
  • Alena Knežević and ,
  • Ivan Sabol and
  • Vlatko Pandurić
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

25 January 2023

The aim of this study was to investigate leachable components (monomers) in high and low viscosity dental bulk-fill resin composites and conventional resin composite materials after polymerization. Six bulk-fill and six conventional dental resin comp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Progress in Polymer Composites for Different Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
38 Citations
8,429 Views
12 Pages

Morinda officinalis is an important herbal medicine and functional food, and its main constituents include anthraquinone and iridoid glycosides. Quantification of the main compounds is a necessary step to understand the quality and therapeutic proper...

(This article belongs to the Section Analytical Chemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,134 Views
10 Pages

Clinical Mass Spectrometry in Immunosuppressant Analysis: Toward a Full Automation?

  • Chiara Fania,
  • Marco Bagnati,
  • Marina Albertario,
  • Carlotta Ferraris and ,
  • Marta Lamonaca and
  • Umberto Dianzani
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

6 April 2022

The analysis of immunosuppressive drugs allows the physician to monitor, and eventually correct, immunosuppressive therapy. The panel of molecules under evaluation includes cyclosporine A (CsA), tacrolimus, sirolimus, and everolimus. Initially, assay...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Mass Spectrometry Approaches for Clinical Diagnostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,077 Views
12 Pages

A Novel Bioanalytical Method for Determination of Inotodiol Isolated from Inonotus Obliquus and Its Application to Pharmacokinetic Study

  • Jin Hyeok Kim,
  • Dan Gao,
  • Chong Woon Cho,
  • Inkyu Hwang and ,
  • Hyung Min Kim and
  • Jong Seong Kang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 August 2021

In this study, we developed a bioanalytical method using liquid chromatography coupled to triple quadrupole tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) to apply to a pharmacokinetic study of inotodiol, which is known for its anti-cancer activity. Plasma samp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Isolation and Analysis of Characteristic Compounds from Herbal and Plant Extracts)
  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,874 Views
30 Pages

26 November 2025

Phenolic molecules represent one of the most prevalent and biologically important categories of secondary metabolites. Within this diverse group, phenolic acids and flavonoids are the most extensively studied categories, primarily due to their struct...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical Studies in Natural Products)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,750 Views
29 Pages

Robust LC–MS/MS Methodology for Low-Level PFAS in Sludge Matrices

  • Luoana Florentina Pascu,
  • Valentina Andreea Petre,
  • Vasile Ion Iancu,
  • Ioana Antonia Cimpean and
  • Florentina Laura Chiriac

17 November 2025

Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent environmental contaminants that tend to accumulate in solid matrices such as sewage sludge, raising concerns regarding their fate and potential ecological risks. This study aimed to develop an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,119 Views
25 Pages

Geoherbalism Metabolomic Analysis of Atractylodes lancea (Thunb.) DC. by LC-Triple TOF-MS/MS and GC-MS

  • Hailong Qiu,
  • Chenxiao Shan,
  • Chenghao Fei,
  • Ping Xue and ,
  • Yongyi Zhou,
  • Jiahuan Yuan and
  • Xin Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

9 August 2023

The rhizome of Atractylodes lancea (Thunb.) DC. (AL), called Maocangzhu in Chinese, is a geoherbalism medical herb in Jiangsu Province that is often used in the prescription of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), such as for the treatment of COVID-19...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Natural Substances and Their Derivatives: In Search of New Structures, Activities and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,799 Views
10 Pages

18 February 2021

DA-7010 is a new candidate for an antibacterial agent that targets Gram-negative pathogens by acting as a leucyl-tRNA synthetase inhibitor. In this study, a simple and rapid liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) method was develop...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical Techniques in the Pharmaceutical Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
4,307 Views
11 Pages

A UHPLC–MS/MS Method for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring of Aciclovir and Ganciclovir in Plasma and Dried Plasma Spots

  • Federica Pigliasco,
  • Alessia Cafaro,
  • Raffaele Simeoli,
  • Sebastiano Barco and ,
  • Alberto Magnasco,
  • Maura Faraci,
  • Gino Tripodi,
  • Bianca Maria Goffredo and
  • Giuliana Cangemi
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

The role of therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) of valaciclovir (VA)/aciclovir (A) and valganciclovir/ganciclovir (VG/G) in critically ill patients is still a matter of debate. More data on the dose–concentration relationship might therefore be useful,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pharmacokinetics and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
4,558 Views
13 Pages

Ozonation of Amoxicillin and Ciprofloxacin in Model Hospital Wastewater to Increase Biotreatability

  • Severina Aleksić,
  • Andreja Žgajnar Gotvajn,
  • Katarina Premzl,
  • Mitja Kolar and
  • Sonja Šostar Turk

17 November 2021

Amoxicillin (AMX) and Ciprofloxacin (CIP) are antibiotics commonly used in human medicine with high environmental toxicity and poor biodegradability. They have been found in various hospital effluents and groundwater, and their environmental impact i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,505 Views
12 Pages

Cannabidiol Determination on Peripheral Capillary Blood Using a Microsampling Method and Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography Tandem Mass Spectrometry with On-Line Sample Preparation

  • Federica Pigliasco,
  • Sebastiano Barco,
  • Sara Dubois,
  • Francesca Marchese and ,
  • Pasquale Striano,
  • Tommaso Lomonaco,
  • Francesca Mattioli,
  • Gino Tripodi and
  • Giuliana Cangemi
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

8 August 2020

The aim of this work is to evaluate volumetric absorptive microsampling (VAMS) from capillary blood as an alternative strategy for therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM) in patients treated with the newly available GW-purified form of cannabidiol (Epidiol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Pharmaceutical Drugs Based on Cannabis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,126 Views
25 Pages

Pesticide Residues in Fruits and Vegetables from Cape Verde: A Multi-Year Monitoring and Dietary Risk Assessment Study

  • Andrea Acosta-Dacal,
  • Ricardo Díaz-Díaz,
  • Pablo Alonso-González,
  • María del Mar Bernal-Suárez and ,
  • Eva Parga-Dans,
  • Lluis Serra-Majem,
  • Adriana Ortiz-Andrellucchi,
  • Manuel Zumbado,
  • Edson Santos and
  • Octavio P. Luzardo
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

28 July 2025

Food safety concerns related to pesticide residues in fruits and vegetables have increased globally, particularly in regions where monitoring programs are scarce or inconsistent. This study provides the first multi-year evaluation of pesticide contam...

(This article belongs to the Section Food Toxicology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,769 Views
11 Pages

Simultaneous Quantification of Ivacaftor, Tezacaftor, and Elexacaftor in Cystic Fibrosis Patients’ Plasma by a Novel LC–MS/MS Method

  • Federica Pigliasco,
  • Alessia Cafaro,
  • Manuela Stella,
  • Giammarco Baiardi and ,
  • Sebastiano Barco,
  • Nicoletta Pedemonte,
  • Claudia D’Orsi,
  • Federico Cresta,
  • Rosaria Casciaro and
  • Giuliana Cangemi
  • + 8 authors+ 3 authors

The new breakthrough cystic fibrosis (CF) drug combination of ivacaftor (IVA), tezacaftor (TEZ), and elexacaftor (ELX), namely “caftor” drugs, directly modulates the activity and trafficking of the defective CF transmembrane conductance r...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Therapeutic Drug Monitoring)
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  • Open Access
1,815 Views
2 Pages

Capillary Electrophoresis–Tandem Mass Spectrometry as an Analytical Technique for the Simultaneous Determination of Multiclass Cyanotoxins †

  • Rocío Carmona-Molero,
  • María Mar Aparicio-Muriana,
  • Francisco J. Lara,
  • Rafael Cazorla-Vílchez and ,
  • Maykel Hernández-Mesa,
  • Ana M. García-Campaña and
  • Monsalud del Olmo-Iruela
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

Cyanotoxins are toxic metabolites produced by most cyanobacteria. In recent years, the occurrence of cyanobacterial blooms in aquatic ecosystems has temporally and spatially increased because of nutrient oversupply caused by human and also by climati...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 7th Iberian Congress on Cyanotoxins/3rd Iberoamerican Congress on Cyanotoxins)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,277 Views
19 Pages

The Association between the Bisphenols Residues in Amniotic Fluid and Fetal Abnormalities in Polish Pregnant Women—Its Potential Clinical Application

  • Tomasz Tuzimski,
  • Szymon Szubartowski,
  • Aleksandra Stupak,
  • Wojciech Kwaśniewski and ,
  • Małgorzata Szultka-Młyńska,
  • Anna Kwaśniewska and
  • Bogusław Buszewski
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between the concentrations of bisphenols residues in the amniotic fluid (AF) samples collected during amniocentesis and fetal chromosomal abnormalities in pregnant women. A total of 33 pregnant...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,327 Views
16 Pages

Identification of the Hepatic Metabolites of Flumazenil and their Kinetic Application in Neuroimaging

  • Wei-Hsi Chen,
  • Chuang-Hsin Chiu,
  • Shiou-Shiow Farn,
  • Kai-Hung Cheng and ,
  • Yuan-Ruei Huang,
  • Shih-Ying Lee,
  • Yao-Ching Fang,
  • Yu-Hua Lin and
  • Kang-Wei Chang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Studies of the neurobiological causes of anxiety disorders have suggested that the γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) system increases synaptic concentrations and enhances the affinity of GABAA (type A) receptors for benzodiazepine ligands. Flumazenil...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Radiolabeled Agents: Imaging, Therapy, Multimodal Approaches and Beyond)