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- Title
Identification of Benzodiazepine Use Based on Dried Blood Stains Analysis.
- Authors
Fernández-López, Lucía; Rodríguez, Sandra; Cánovas-Cabanes, Alberto; Teruel-Fernández, Francisco-Javier; Almela, Pilar; del Rincón, Juan-Pedro Hernández; Navarro-Zaragoza, Javier; Falcón, María
- Abstract
Biological matrices are typically used in forensic toxicological or pharmacological analysis: mainly blood, vitreous humor or urine. However, there are many cases in which crimes are a consequence of drug intoxication or drug abuse and they are not closed because over the months or years the samples become altered or decomposed. A dried blood stains test (DBS-MS) has recently been proposed to be used in drug toxicology when blood is found at a crime scene. This test could help an investigator to reveal what a person had consumed before the perpetration of the crime. In order to check the possibilities of this test, we analyzed several dried blood stains located on a cotton fabric. Therefore, the aim of this study was to determine if the analysis of a dried blood spot located on a cotton fabric could be an alternate source of obtaining toxicological results, particularly regarding benzodiazepines. We splashed blood stains on cotton fabric with different concentrations of the following benzodiazepines: alprazolam, bromazepam, clonazepam, diazepam and lorazepam, which were dried for 96 h and subsequently quantified by high-performance liquid chromatography coupled mass spectrometry (HPLC-MS). Our results show that it is possible to identify several benzodiazepines contained in a cotton fabric blood stain; consequently, this method may add another sample option to the toxicological analysis of biological vestiges found at a crime scene.
- Subjects
BLOODSTAINS; LIQUID chromatography-mass spectrometry; BLOOD testing; BENZODIAZEPINES; DRIED blood spot testing; HIGH performance liquid chromatography
- Publication
Pharmaceuticals (14248247), 2024, Vol 17, Issue 6, p799
- ISSN
1424-8247
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ph17060799