Fast screening of 170 doping substances in pastes by ultra-high performance liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry method
Objective To develop a detection method with ultra-high performance liquid chromatogra-phy-high resolution mass spectrometry(UPLC-HRMS) for fast screening of doping substances in pastes,so as to strengthen the drug-borne doping risk prevention system.Methods The paste samples were removed the covering film and extracted by using tert-butyl methyl ether and anhydrous ethanol,respectively.The extracts were combined and blown dry under nitrogen flow at 40 ℃,and methanol was used to dissolve the residues,which were then filtered and analyzed with the Thermo Vaniquish-Q Exactive Plus.Then,3 μL of the solution was injected into and separated by the Agilent ZORBAX-Eclipse C18 column (2.1 × 100 mm,1.8 μm),and the gradient elution was performed with 10 mM ammonium formate (containing 0.1% formic acid,pH3.5) and acetonitrile as mobile phase.The 170 kinds of doping substances were detected in positive ion electrospray (ESI+) and negative ion electro-spray(ESI-) respectively under Full Mass/data-dependent mass spectrometry(Full MS/ddMS2) mode.Re-sults The results showed that the method had good selectivity and samples were stable within 48 h af-ter pretreatment.The detection limit(LOD) of 92 doping substances were about 3 ng/g,while that of another 31 and 47 ones was about 6 ng/g and 30 ng/g,respectively.In this study,among 10 paste samples,4 were tested positive for strychnine,and 3 were positive for higenamine and ephedrine,re-spectively.Conclusion A fast screening method for 170 kinds of doping substances in 9 categories is developed by using ultra-high performance liquid chromatography with high resolution mass spectrome-try in this study.Such method proves to be simple,sensitive and reliable,which is suitable for fast screening of doping substances in pastes.
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