CORESTA Meeting, Smoke Science/Product Technology, Stratford-upon-Avon, 2005, SSPT 29
Biomonitoring of nicotine and cotinine in saliva to assess human smoke exposure: a new validated analytical methodology
PIERRI E.; CIARAVOLO S.; GIONTI M.; LIONETTI G.; NUNZIATA A.
British American Tobacco Italia, R&D, Naples, Italy
Nicotine, the most important tobacco alkaloid, is quickly metabolized in humans. Cotinine is the main metabolite of nicotine and it is obtained by oxidation of the pyrrolidine ring. The presence of nicotine, cotinine and other metabolites in...