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ArticleForensic toxicology2019

Forensic analysis using ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry with solid-phase extraction of α-solanine and α-chaconine in whole blood.

Akina Nara, Kanju Saka, Chiho Yamada, Takanori Kodama, Tetsuya Takagi

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Article in Forensic toxicology, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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Akina Nara1Division of Legal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 1-15-1 Fukumuro, Miyagino-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi 983-8536 Japan.
Kanju Saka2Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113-0033 Japan.
Chiho Yamada1Division of Legal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 1-15-1 Fukumuro, Miyagino-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi 983-8536 Japan.
Takanori Kodama1Division of Legal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 1-15-1 Fukumuro, Miyagino-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi 983-8536 Japan.
Tetsuya Takagi1Division of Legal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University, 1-15-1 Fukumuro, Miyagino-ku, Sendai-shi, Miyagi 983-8536 Japan.
Tohoku Medical and Pharmaceutical University Hospital · JPThe University of Tokyo · JP

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

purposeThe potato glycoalkaloids (PGAs), α-solanine and α-chaconine can exert adverse effects on human health when consumed in excess. This study aimed to investigate the optimal extraction method for the quantitative analysis of PGAs in whole blood by using ultra-high-performance liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (UHPLC-MS/MS) and to apply this validated method to postmortem blood.

methodsA total of 200 µL of human whole blood was prepared for PGA extraction. For validation, a solid-phase extraction (SPE) using Oasis

resultsIn this method, the limit of detection and the lower limit of quantification (LLOQ) of both α-solanine and α-chaconine were 1 and 2 µg/L, respectively. The calibration curves of the two compounds were obtained with good linearity in the range of 2-100 µg/L. The recovery rates at the LLOQ of α-solanine and α-chaconine were ≥ 91.8% and ≥ 85.9%, respectively. The validation data (intra- and inter-day combined) for accuracy ranged from 93.5 to 106.6% for α-solanine and from 93.9 to 107.7% for α-chaconine. This validated method was successfully applied to one forensic autopsy case, and the concentrations of α-solanine and α-chaconine in the postmortem cardiac blood were 45.1 and 35.5 µg/L, respectively.

conclusionsThis validated UHPLC-MS/MS with SPE for quantitative analysis of PGAs could be useful in forensic toxicology.

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GlycoalkaloidLiquid chromatography–mass spectrometrySolid-phase extractionValidationα-Chaconineα-Solanine

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PMID30636987
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