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Confirmatory Determination of Buprenorphine and Norbuprenorphine in Urine Using A High-Throughput LC-HRAM-MS/MS Forensic Methodology
Results
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of 17 500 and
sample cycle time of 1.07 minutes. The method was linear from 5 to 2000
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li t
ng/mL for both BUP and NBUP with correlation of coefficients (R2) > 0 996
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ethod
Figure 3 shows a representative extracted ion chromatogram (XIC) for the
analytes and their respective IS with a mass accuracy of 5 ppm at their LOQ
(5 ng/mL) Table 5 contains a 3 day summary of precision and accuracy in
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the QCs across two LC channels.
t of settings.
Matrix Effects
The absolute recoveries of BUP and NBUP were tested in urine obtained
from six different drug-free human donors as compared to the average in the
Species
water samples (n=3) Absolute recoveries of BUP in these samples ranged
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from 30 0% to 84 1% and for NBUP from 28 9% to 57 5% at 100 ng/mL The
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samples ranged from 90.2% to 111%.
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As a result of enzymatic hydrolysis demonstrated here between 98.7% and
113% of expected NBUP was recovered from its glucuronide standard in the
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molecular weights (0.701).
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Figure 3 Representative chromatogram of quan and qual XICs for
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NBUP and its IS at left and for BUP and its IS at right at LOQ (5 ng/mL).
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472.34@hcd50.00
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60
ativeAbund
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20
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m/z=211.07430-211.07642
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Relat
RT:0.10
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m/z=400.24004-400.24404
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472.34@hcd50.00
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60
ativeAbun
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60
ativeAbun
0
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100
undance
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468.31@hcd50.00
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40
elativeAbu
20
40
elativeAbu
0
Re
RT:0.05
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NL: 1.12E6
m/z=211.07430-211.07642
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0
Re
RT:0.10
AA:83356
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NL: 3.52E4
m/z=396.21495-396.21891
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60
80
100
bundance
417.28@hcd50.00
[50.00-445.00] MS ICIS
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80
100
bundance
468.31@hcd50.00
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40
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T bl 5 I t A (3 d ) P i i
(%CV 5) d A
a e . n er- ssay - ays rec s on
, n= an ccuracy
(%Diff, n=5) obtained by staggered injection across Channel 1 (CH1)
and Channel 2 (CH2) of a Multi-Channel LC.
rties used
QC L l
CH1
CH1
CH2
CH2
.
Analyte
eve
(ng/mL)
%CV
%Diff
%CV %Diff
BUP
10
8 7
7 4
9 7
6 7
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800
3 3
3 3
4 2
4 4
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