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A Simple and Sensitive Quantitation of N,N-Dimethyitryptamine by Gas Chromatography with Surface Ionization Detection


Pages: 36 - 40

Abstract

A simple and sensitive method for determination of N,Ndimethyltryptamine (DMT) by gas chromatography (GC) with surface ionization detection (SID) is presented. Whole blood or urine, containing DMT and gramine (internal standard), was subjected to solid-phase extraction with a Sep-Pak C18 cartridge before analysis by GC-SID. The calibration curve was linear in the DMT range of 1.25-20 ng/mL blood or urine. The detection limit of DMT was about 0.5 ng/mL (10 pg on-column). The recovery of both DMT and gramine spiked in biological fluids was above 86%.