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SUBMITTER: Hartman RL
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4492916 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry 20131115 2
3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is an illicit phenethylamine ingested for entactogenic and euphoric effects. Although blood is more commonly submitted for forensic analysis, previous human MDMA pharmacokinetics research focused on plasma data; no direct blood-plasma comparisons were drawn. Blood and plasma specimens from 50 healthy adult volunteers (33 males, 17 females, 36 African-American) who ingested recreational 1.0 and 1.6 mg/kg MDMA doses were quantified for MDMA and metabolites ...[more]