Methods for retrospective detection of exposure to toxic scheduled chemicals. Part B: Mass spectrometric and immunochemical analysis of covalent adducts to proteins and DNA
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In this article, an overview is presented of the methods that are currently available for retrospective detection of exposure to a number of chemical warfare agents (CWAs), based on adducts formed with macromolecules such as proteins. These methods can be applied for various purposes, e.g. diagnosis and dosimetry of exposure of casualties, confirmation of nonexposure, and verification of nonadherence to the Chemical Weapons Convention, health surveillance, and forensic purposes. The advantage of using protein adducts as biomarkers in comparison with free metabolites is that they are potentially much more long‐lived. The methods are predominantly based on liquid chromatography–mass spectrometry (LC–MS) analysis of enzymatic digests of the (modified) proteins or on selective removal of the specific adduct moiety from the protein, followed by gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC–MS) or LC–MS. Several of the methods have been successfully applied to actual cases and were shown to be highly retrospective.
TNO Identifier
952726
ISBN
978047197670 ; 9780470027318
Publisher
Wiley
Source title
Encyclopedia of analytical chemistry: Applications, theory and instrumentation
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