Vd. Chivanov et al., RAPID METHOD FOR DETECTING PAPAVERINE IN BIOLOGICAL-FLUIDS BY PLASMA DESORPTION MASS-SPECTROMETRY WITH IONIZATION BY CF-252 FISSION FRAGMENTS, Journal of analytical chemistry, 52(9), 1997, pp. 902-905
Time-of-flight mass spectrometry with bombardment by Cf-252 fission fr
agments is a very promising method for the rapid detection of pharmaco
logically active and narcotic alkaloids in body fluids. The lowest con
centrations of Papaverine, employed as a typical alkaloid, determined
in rat blood and urine make up 100 +/- 20 ng. The detection procedure
involves a simple two-step cleanup (with a saturated aqueous solution
of oxalic acid and chloroform) followed by measuring mass spectra of s
olid samples obtained by drying multicomponent biomatrices representin
g chloroform extracts from blood or urine on a metal support.