Emerging Trends in Liquid Chromatography and Mass Spectrometry-Based Analyses of Pharmaceuticals
A special issue of Pharmaceuticals (ISSN 1424-8247). This special issue belongs to the section "Medicinal Chemistry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 January 2025 | Viewed by 709
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Liquid chromatography (LC) coupled with mass spectrometry (MS) can be considered a high-performing technique, widely applied for various purposes, particularly suitable to detect and quantify analytes even in complex matrices and/or in traces. LC-MS analytical methods generally offer improved selectivity, sensitivity and accuracy compared to other methods, especially when tandem mass (MS/MS) techniques or high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) are employed. Among the others, LC-MS analytical methods found wide and successful applications in the pharmaceutical field. For example, LC-MS is useful in pharmacokinetic studies, directed at the detection and quantitation of drugs and their metabolites in a variety of biological matrices, such as blood, brain, plasma, or urine, being crucial throughout the development of new drugs or alternative drug delivery systems.At the same time, drugs and their metabolites are potential environmental contaminants, with possible relevant consequences for human health and ecosystems. LC-MS is a powerful tool for the analysis of drugs and their transformation products in wastewater and soil as well as in environmental monitoring. The aim of this Special Issue is to collect original and review articles related to the recent applications of LC-MS techniques for the identification and quantitation of pharmaceutical compounds, both well-known and potential new drugs, in biological and environmental matrices and in pharmaceutical formulations, to provide the current state of the art of LC-MS applications in the pharmaceutical field.
Dr. Martina Bortolami
Dr. Paola Di Matteo
Dr. Rita Petrucci
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- pharmacokinetic analyses
- drug metabolites
- drug delivery systems
- biological matrices
- environmental samples
- environmental monitoring
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