Incorporation of zolpidem and methoxyphenamine into white hair strands after single administrations: Influence of hair pigmentation on drug incorporation

Add time:07/22/2019    Source:sciencedirect.com

In order to investigate the influence of pigmentation on the incorporation of drugs into hair, time-course changes in drug distribution along non-pigmented (white) hairs as well as pigmented (black) hairs plucked from the same subject was observed following single administrations of two basic drugs with different properties, zolpidem and methoxyphenamine. These drugs in 1-mm sections of single hair specimens were each determined by a liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometric procedure. During the early stage (12–36 h) after intake, for black hairs, both drugs were detected over the entire area of hair root (4–5 mm in length), in which notable concentration of these drugs in the hair bulb (0–1-mm segment from the bottom of hair root, Region 1) and lower concentrations in the upper dermis zone (1–2-mm to 3–4-mm or to 4–5-mm segments, Region 2) were commonly observed. Meanwhile, for white hairs, high drug concentrations in Region 1 as detected in black hairs were not observed although only small amounts of these drugs were detected over Region 2. Subsequent time-course changes in the concentration of drugs in hair demonstrated that the drugs once incorporated into white hair via Region 2 decreased gradually over the period from 24 h to 35 days after intake, but those of black hairs remained almost unchanged. These findings revealed here suggest that hair pigments have two important roles in the distribution of drugs: (1) incorporation of drugs into hair via Region 1, and (2) retention of already incorporated drugs in the hair tissue. These findings would be useful for discussing individual drug-use history based on hair analysis in the forensic fields.

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