title: [Determination of ketamine and its metabolites in biological samples].
abstract: The abuse of ketamine has gained popularity in recent years. It is important to develop rapid and accurate methods to determine ketamine and its metabolites in biological samples. The metabolites of ketamine are norketamine and dehydronorketamine in vivo. At present, there are blood, urine, hair and so on as specimens for detection, while the methods include GC, GC/MS, HPLC, LC/MS, HPCE etc. In this paper, these methods used for ketamine and its metabolites were reviewed in order to provide some preference for the study in relative fields.
authors.affiliation: West China Preclinical and Forensic Medicine College, Sichuan University, Chengdu 610041, China.
authors.forename: Li-li
authors.initials: LL
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Lin-chuan
authors.initials: LC
authors.lastname: Liao
authors.forename: Zhou-li
authors.initials: ZL
authors.lastname: Wang
mesh_terms: D000778:Anesthetics, Dissociative / Q000032:analysis* / Q000737:chemistry; D002851:Chromatography, High Pressure Liquid / Q000379:methods; D005554:Forensic Medicine; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry / Q000379:methods; D006197:Hair / Q000737:chemistry; D006801:Humans; D007649:Ketamine / Q000032:analysis* / Q000378:metabolism; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity; D015813:Substance Abuse Detection / Q000379:methods*
chemical_list: D000778:Anesthetics, Dissociative; D007649:Ketamine