A rapid gas-liquid chromatographic method for the determination of cotinine and nicotine in biological fluids
- 1 June 1990
- journal article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in Journal of Pharmacy and Pharmacology
- Vol. 42 (6), 450-452
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2042-7158.1990.tb06592.x
Abstract
A rapid method is described for the simultaneous measurement of nicotine and cotinine in biological fluids using capillary column gas-liquid chromatography. Using 100 μL sample volume the lower limit of detection for both nicotine and cotinine was 100 pg mL−1, allowing the method to be used for the measurement of these compounds in both smokers and non-smokers. The extraction time is 3 min per sample, and by using multi-pipetting and vortexing systems 250 samples can be extracted per day. The average coefficient of variation over the nicotine range 10 to 100 ng mL−1 was 3.9% and for cotinine over the range 1.0 to 1000 ng mL−1 was 2.2%. Saliva cotinine concentrations were quantitatively related to passive exposure to parental smoking in a population study of 1118 non-smoking schoolchildren.Keywords
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