• closedAccess   A Refined Nontarget Workflow for the Investigation of Metabolites through the Prioritization by in Silico Prediction Tools 

      Bijlsma, Lubertus; Berntssen, Marc H. G.; Merel, Sylvain American Chemical Society (2019-04-11)
      The application of nontargeted strategies based on high-resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) directed toward the discovery of metabolites of known contaminants in fish is an interesting alternative to true nontarget screening. ...
    • openAccess   Re-certification of hydroxyvitamin D standards by isotope pattern deconvolution 

      Pitarch-Motellón, Jorge; Roig-Navarro, Antoni F.; Le Goff, C.; Cavalier, E.; Fabregat-Cabello, Neus Elsevier (2019-04-22)
      Background Vitamin D testing in analytical clinical laboratories has been experiencing a rapid increase of demand over the last years, as it plays a key role in several disorders. Due to the narrow ranges of medical ...
    • openAccess   The role of analytical chemistry in exposure science: Focus on the aquatic environment 

      Hernandez, Felix; Bakker, Joost; Bijlsma, Lubertus; De Boer, Jacob H.; Botero-Coy, Ana Maria; Bruinen de Bruin, Yuri; Fischer, Stellan Taylor; Hollender, Juliane; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Lamoree, Marja; López, F. J.; Laak, Thomas Lter; Van Leerdam, Jan A.; Sancho, Juan V; Schymanski, Emma; De Voogt, Pim W.P.; Hogendoorn, Elbert Alex Elsevier (2019-05)
      Exposure science, in its broadest sense, studies the interactions between stressors (chemical, biological, and physical agents) and receptors (e.g. humans and other living organisms, and non-living items like buildings), ...
    • openAccess   Electrochemical oxidation of dibenzothiophene compounds on BDD electrode in acetonitrile–water medium 

      Ornelas Dávila, Omar; Lacalle-Bergeron, Leticia; Ruiz Gutiérrez, P.; Dávila-Jiménez, Martín M.; Sirés Sadornil, Ignacio; Brillas, Enric; Roig-Navarro, Antoni F.; Beltran Arandes, Joaquin; Sancho, Juan V Elsevier (2019-05-23)
      The electrochemical oxidation of dibenzothiophene and two derivatives, namely 4-methyldibenzothiophene and 4,6-dimethyldibenzothiophene, was investigated either separately or as a mixture, on a BDD anode in a miscible ...
    • openAccess   Simultaneous determination of new psychoactive substances and illicit drugs in sewage: Potential of micro-liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry in wastewater-based epidemiology 

      Celma, Alberto; Sancho, Juan V; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Castiglioni, Sara; Zuccato, Ettore; Hernandez, Felix; Bijlsma, Lubertus Elsevier (2019-05-30)
      Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) can give valuable light on the extent and actual use of new psychoactive substances (NPS). In this work, a fully validated methodology for the simultaneous determination of illicit drugs ...
    • openAccess   Monitoring new psychoactive substances use through wastewater analysis: current situation, challenges and limitations 

      Bijlsma, Lubertus; Celma, Alberto; Lopez, Francisco; Hernandez, Felix Elsevier (2019-06)
      New psychoactive substances (NPSs) are compounds that produce similar effects to those induced by illicit drugs (IDs), such as cocaine, cannabis, and amphetamines, but are not strictly regulated by international conventions. ...
    • openAccess   Study of cyanotoxin degradation and evaluation of their transformation products in surface waters by LC-QTOF MS 

      León, Cristina; Boix Sales, Clara; Beltrán Iturat, Eduardo; Peñuela, Gustavo; Lopez, Francisco; Sancho, Juan V; Hernandez, Felix Elsevier (2019-08)
      In the present work, the degradation of three cyanotoxins from the hepatotoxins group was investigated under laboratory-controlled experiments in water samples. Surface waters spiked with microcystin-LR (MC-LR), nodularin ...
    • openAccess   Comprehensive investigation on synthetic cannabinoids: metabolic behaviour, detectability and potency testing, using 5F-APP-PICA and AMBFUBINACA as model compounds. 

      Fabregat-Safont, David; Mardal, Marie; Noble, Carolina; Cannaert, Annelies; Stove, Christophe; Sancho, Juan V; Linner, Kristian; Hernandez, Felix; Ibáñez, Maria Wiley (2019-09)
      Synthetic cannabinoids (SCs) represented 45% of new psychoactive substances seizures in Europe (data from 2016). The consumption of SCs is an issue of concern due to their still unknown toxicity and effects on human health, ...
    • openAccess   Investigation of pesticides and their transformation products in the Júcar River Hydrographical Basin (Spain) by wide-scope high-resolution mass spectrometry screening 

      Fonseca Rubí, Eddie Alexander; Renau-Pruñonosa, Arianna; Ibáñez, Maria; GRACIA LOR, EMMA; Estrela, Teodoro; Jiménez, Sara; Pérez Martín, Miguel Ángel; González, Francisco; Hernandez, Felix; Morell, Ignacio Elsevier (2019-10)
      The Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC implemented by the European Union established as the main objectives to achieve a “good ecological and chemical status” of the surface water and a “good quantitative and chemical ...
    • openAccess   Flexible high resolution-mass spectrometry approach for screening new psychoactive substances in urban wastewater 

      Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Castiglioni, Sara; GRACIA LOR, EMMA; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Celma, Alberto; Bagnati, Renzo; Hernandez, Felix; Zuccato, Ettore Elsevier (2019-11-01)
      The number of new psychoactive substances (NPS) on the recreational drug market has increased rapidly in the last years, creating serious challenges for public health agencies and law enforcement authorities. Epidemiological ...
    • openAccess   Metabolic profiling of four synthetic stimulants, including the novel indanyl-cathinone 5-PPDi, after human hepatocyte incubation 

      Fabregat-Safont, David; Mardal, Marie; Sancho, Juan V; Hernandez, Felix; Linnet, Kristjan; Ibáñez, Maria Elsevier (2019-12-28)
      Synthetic cathinones are new psychoactive substances that represent a health risk worldwide. For most of the 130 reported compounds, information about toxicology and/or metabolism is not available, which hampers their ...
    • openAccess   Identification of Aquifer Recharge Sources as the Origin of Emerging Contaminants in Intensive Agricultural Areas. La Plana de Castellón, Spain 

      Renau-Pruñonosa, Arianna; García-Menéndez, Olga; Ibáñez, Maria; Vázquez-Suñé, Enric; Boix, Clara; Ballesteros, Bruno B.; Hernández García, Marta; Morell, Ignacio; Hernandez, Felix MDPI (2020)
      In urban, industrial, and agricultural areas, a vast array of contaminants may be found because they are introduced into the aquifers by different recharge sources. The emerging contaminants (ECs) correspond to unregulated ...
    • openAccess   Variación en el patrón de consumo de cannabinoides sintéticos de una paciente a lo largo de 2018 

      Fabregat-Safont, David; Ripoll, Carmen; Orengo, Teresa; Vicente Sancho, Juan; Hernandez, Felix; Ibáñez, Maria Sociedad Científica Española de Estudios sobre el Alcohol, el Alcoholismo y las otras Toxicomanías (2020)
      El consumo de cannabinoides sintéticos es un problema creciente. En España, el número de incautaciones e intoxicaciones relacionadas con estas nuevas sustancias psicoactivas (NPS) es menor que en el resto de Europa. No ...
    • openAccess   Understanding the pharmacokinetics of synthetic cathinones: Evaluation of the blood–brain barrier permeability of 13 related compounds in rats 

      Fabregat-Safont, David; Barneo-Muñoz, Manuela; Carbón, Xoán; Hernandez, Felix; Martinez-Garcia, Fernando; Ventura, Mireia; Stove, Christophe P.; Sancho, Juan V; Ibáñez, Maria Wiley (2020)
      Synthetic cathinones are the second most commonly seized new psychoactive substance family in Europe. These compounds have been related to several intoxication cases, including fatalities. Although the pharmacological ...
    • closedAccess   Enantiomeric profiling of quinolones and quinolones resistance gene qnrS in European wastewaters 

      Castrignano', Erika; Yang, Zhugen; Feil, Edward; Bade, Richard; Castiglioni, Sara; Causanilles, Ana; GRACIA LOR, EMMA; Hernandez, Felix; Plosz, Benedek; Ramin, Pedram; Rousis, Nikolaos I; Ryu, Yeonsuk; Thomas, Kevin; de Voogt, Pim; Zuccato, Ettore; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara Elsevier (2020)
      Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) was applied for the first time in seven cities across Europe with the aim of estimating quinolones consumption via the analysis of human urinary metabolites in wastewater. This report ...
    • openAccess   Ultra-Performance Liquid Chromatography-Ion Mobility Separation-Quadruple Time-of-Flight MS (UHPLC-IMS-QTOF MS) Metabolomics for Short-Term Biomarker Discovery of Orange Intake: A Randomized, Controlled Crossover Study 

      Lacalle-Bergeron, Leticia; Portoles, Tania; López, Francisco J.; Sancho, Juan V; CAROLINA, ORTEGA-AZORÍN; Asensio, Eva Maria; Coltell, Oscar; Corella, Dolores MDPI (2020)
      A major problem with dietary assessments is their subjective nature. Untargeted metabolomics and new technologies can shed light on this issue and provide a more complete picture of dietary intake by measuring the profile ...
    • openAccess   Spatio‐temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring 

      González-Mariño, Iria; Baz Lomba, Jose Antonio; Alygizakis, Nikiforos; Andrés-Costa, Maria Jesús; Bade, Richard; Bannwarth, Anne; Barron, Leon; Been, Frederic; Benaglia, Lisa; Berset, Jean-Daniel; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Bodík, Igor; Brenner, Asher; Brock, Andreas L.; Burgard, Daniel A.; Castrignanò, Erika; Celma, Alberto; Christophoridis, Christophoros; Covaci, Adrian; Delémont, Olivier; de Voogt, Pim; Devault, Damien A.; Mário J. Dias, Mário J.; Emke, Erik; Esseiva, Pierre; Fatta-Kassinos, Despo; Fedorova, Ganna; Fytianos, Konstantinos; Gerber, Cobus; Grabic, Roman; GRACIA LOR, EMMA; Grüner, Stefan; Gunnar, Teemu; Hapeshi, Evroula; Heath, Ester; Helm, Björn; Hernandez, Felix; Kankaanpaa, Aino; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Krizman-Matasic, Ivona; Lai, Foon Yin; Lechowicz, Wojciech; Lopes, Alvaro; López de Alda, Miren; López-García, Ester; Löve, Arndís; Mastroianni, Nicola; McEneff, Gillian; Montes, Rosa; Munro, Kelly; Nefau, Thomas; Oberacher, Herbert; O'Brien, Jake William; Oertel, Reinhard; Olafsdottir, Kristin; Picó, Yolanda; Plosz, Benedek; Polesel, Fabio; Postigo, Cristina; Quintana, José Benito; Ramin Pedram; Reid, Malcolm J.; Rice, Jack; Rodil, Rosario; Salgueiro-González, Noelia; Schubert, Sara; Senta, Ivan; Simões, Susana M.; Sremački, Maja; Styszko, Katarzyna; Terzic, Senka; Thomaidis, Nikolaos; Thomas, Kevin V.; Tscharke, Ben J.; Udrisard, Robin; van Nuijs, Alexander; Yargeau Viviane; Zuccato, Ettore; Castiglioni, Sara; Ort, Christoph Wiley (2020-01)
      Background and aims: Wastewater‐based epidemiology is an additional indicator of drug use that is gaining reliability to complement the current established panel of indicators. The aims of this study were to: (i) assess ...
    • openAccess   Investigation on the consumption of synthetic cannabinoids among teenagers by the analysis of herbal blends and urine samples 

      Fabregat-Safont, David; Ibáñez, Maria; baquero, abel; Sancho, Juan V; Hernandez, Felix; Haro Cortés, Gonzalo Elsevier (2020-04-13)
      The use of synthetic cannabinoids (SCs), which escape conventional detection systems, may be a good alternative to elude routine drug analysis for cannabis. The detection of these drugs in urine is unusual due to their ...
    • openAccess   Direct and Fast Screening of New Psychoactive Substances Using Medical Swabs and Atmospheric Solids Analysis Probe Triple Quadrupole with Data-Dependent Acquisition 

      Fabregat-Safont, David; Felis-Brittes, Daniela; Mata-Pesquera, Maria; Sancho, Juan V; Hernandez, Felix; Ibáñez, Maria American Chemical Society (2020-05-28)
      New psychoactive substances (NPS) have become a serious public health problem, as they are continuously changing their structures and modifying their potency and effects on humans, and therefore, novel compounds are ...
    • openAccess   Wastewater-Based Epidemiology: Global Collaborative to Maximize Contributions in the Fight Against COVID-19 

      Bivins, Aaron; North, Devin; Ahmad, Arslan; Ahmed , Warish; Alm, Eric; Been, Frederic; Bhattacharya, Prosun; Bijlsma, Lubertus; Boehm, Alexandria B.; Brown, Joe; Buttiglieri, Gianluigi; Calabro', Vincenza; Carducci, Annalaura; Cetecioglu, Zeynep; Chakraborty, Sudip; Costa, Federico; Curcio, Curcio; de los Reyes III, Francis; Delgado Vela, Jeseth; Farkas, Kata; Fernandez-Casi, Xavier; Gerba, Charles; Gerrity, Daniel; Girones, Rosina; Gonzalez, Raul; Haramoto, Eiji; Harris, Angela; Holden, Patricia; Islam, Md. Tahmidul; Jones, Davey; Kasprzyk-Hordern, Barbara; Kitajima, Masaaki; Kotlarz, Nadine; Kumar, Manish; Kuroda, Keisuke; La Rosa, Giuseppina; MALPEI, FRANCESCA; Mautus, Mariana; McLellan, Sandra; Medema, Gertjan; Meschke, John Scott; Mueller, Jochen; Newton, Ryan; Nilsson, David; Noble, Rachel; van Nuijs, Alexander; Peccia, Jordan; Perkins, Alex; Pickering, Amy; Rose, Joan; Sánchez, Gloria; Smith, Adam; Stadler, Lauren; Stauber, Christine; Thomas, Kevin; van der Voorn, Tom; Wigginton, Krista; Zhu, Kevin; Bibby, Kyle ACS Publications (2020-06-12)
      Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARSCoV-2), a novel member of the Coronaviridae family, has been identified as the etiologic agent of an ongoing pandemic of severe pneumonia known as COVID-19.1 To date ...