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| Title: | The GC-MS detection and characterization of reticuline as a marker of opium use. |
| Author: | Al-Amri AM, Smith RM, El-Haj BM, Juma'a MH. |
| Abstract: |
Reticuline (a precursor of opium alkaloids) was detected and characterised as its
trimethylsilyl ethers, acetyl esters and methyl ethers by GC-EIMS and GC-CIMS in
opium and the urine of opium users after hydrolysis by acid or beta-glucuronidase
as coe
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| Journal: | Forensic Sci Int. 2004 Mar 10;140(2-3):175-83 |