The sweat matrix: a new perspective for drugs analysis
The sweat matrix: a new perspective for drugs analysis
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汗液基质:药物分析的新视角
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发表时间:
2015
影响因子:
2.2
通讯作者:
V. Pascali
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作者:
N. Fucci;N. De Giovanni;V. Pascali
THE SWEAT is a suitable matrix in many forensic purposes; in recent years, sweat testing received particular attention by scientists for its possible application on other different contest as roadside drug testing to establish driver’s impairment, crime under influence, doping context, psychiatric disorders, drug related deaths, pregnancy and workplace drug testing (1). Sweat is composed approximately by 99% of water with the most concentrated solute being sodium chloride. It is produced by ecrine and apocrine glands originating in the skin dermis and terminating in secretory canals that flow into the skin surface and hair follicles. The secretion of human sweat represents an important homeostatic mechanism for maintaining a constant core body temperature to a narrow physiological range; the amount of sweat secreted is highly variable and dependent upon daily activity, emotional state and environmental temperature (2). Since many years, it has been demonstrated that endogenous and exogenous chemicals are secreted in sweat (3) but many analytical and practical problems mainly due to the difficulty in collecting skin excretions, did not allow its application in forensic toxicology until the nineties. In more recent years (4, 5), significant advances have been made to develop a sweatpatch technology, actually several commercial devices are available for the collection of sweat, however the most common application is the sweat patch. Early patch were made of absorbent cotton pads sandwiched between a waterproof, polyurethane, outer layer and a porous inner layer that is placed against the skin (6).The mechanism by which drugs are incorporated into sweat not fully understood and there are several potential mechanism by which drugs may be secreted in the sweat including passive diffusion from blood into sweat glands and transdermal migration of drugs across the skin (7). Many benefits in using the sweat patch, including high subject acceptability, low incidence of allergic reactions to the patch adhesive and ability to monitor drug intake for a period of several weeks with a single patch. The water component of sweat passes through the polyurethane; solids, salts and drugs excreted in the sweat or that pass through the skin are trapped on the collection pad. Time window depends in part on drug use pattern, chronic, occasional and no-use are readily identified by daily urinalysis while patch identifies only some of the occasional drug use episodes and all of the frequent chronic users. However, the use of the patches has some disadvantages including high inter-subject variability, the possibility of environmental contamination of the patch before the application or after removal and the risk of accidental removal during a monitoring period (8, 9). Moreover, quantitative analysis is not useful, because the amount of sweat secreted is highly variable and the measurement of the volume of sweat is not possible. Another critical aspects is related to the insufficient studies to evaluate the stability of drugs, moreover after chronic exposure lipophilic drugs may be stored in adipose tissue hence they do accumulate in fat falsely suggesting new episodes of drug intake. Sweat-patch analysis requires extraction and sensitive chromatographic methods in combination with mass spectrometry to achieve an effective limit of quantification. Even though, immunoassays commonly used to screen
影响因子:
2.5
作者:
Liberty,HilaryJames;Johnson,BruceD;Fortner,Neil
通讯作者:
Fortner,Neil