List of works by Alexander L.N. van Nuijs

A comparison between wastewater-based drug data and an illicit drug use survey in a selected community

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A data-independent acquisition workflow for qualitative screening of new psychoactive substances in biological samples.

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A one year investigation of the occurrence of illicit drugs in wastewater from Brussels, Belgium

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A straightforward, validated liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry method for the simultaneous detection of nine drugs of abuse and their metabolites in hair and nails.

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Analysis of cocaine and its principal metabolites in waste and surface water using solid-phase extraction and liquid chromatography-ion trap tandem mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 9 December 2007

Analysis of drugs of abuse in wastewater by hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry

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Application of a sewage-based approach to assess the use of ten illicit drugs in four Chinese megacities.

scientific article published on 31 January 2014

Can cocaine use be evaluated through analysis of wastewater? A nation-wide approach conducted in Belgium

scientific article published on 13 March 2009

Cocaine and metabolites in waste and surface water across Belgium

scientific article published on 11 September 2008

Comparing illicit drug use in 19 European cities through sewage analysis.

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Comparison of pharmaceutical, illicit drug, alcohol, nicotine and caffeine levels in wastewater with sale, seizure and consumption data for 8 European cities.

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Comparison of phosphodiesterase type V inhibitors use in eight European cities through analysis of urban wastewater

scientific article published on 03 April 2018

Comprehensive analytical strategies based on high-resolution time-of-flight mass spectrometry to identify new psychoactive substances

scholarly article by María Ibáñez et al published May 2014 in Trends in Analytical Chemistry

Could wastewater analysis be a useful tool for China? - A review.

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Critical review on the stability of illicit drugs in sewers and wastewater samples.

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Dancing on Coke: Smuggling Cocaine Dispersed in Polyvinyl Alcohol

scientific article published on 31 October 2011

Do concentrations of pharmaceuticals in sewage reflect prescription figures?

scientific article published on 13 January 2015

Drugs of abuse and alcohol consumption among different groups of population on the Greek Island of Lesvos through sewage-based epidemiology

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Enantiomeric profiling of chiral illicit drugs in a pan-European study.

scientific article published in December 2017

Estimation of caffeine intake from analysis of caffeine metabolites in wastewater.

scientific article published on 8 August 2017

Ethyl glucuronide concentrations in hair: a controlled alcohol-dosing study in healthy volunteers

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Ethyl glucuronide determination in meconium and hair by hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

scientific article published on 12 January 2010

Ethyl glucuronide in keratinous matrices as biomarker of alcohol use: A correlation study between hair and nails.

scientific article published on 26 August 2017

Evaluation of uncertainties associated with the determination of community drug use through the measurement of sewage drug biomarkers.

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Factors influencing SARS-CoV-2 RNA concentrations in wastewater up to the sampling stage: A systematic review

scientific article published in 2022

Gas chromatographic determination of ethyl glucuronide in hair: comparison between tandem mass spectrometry and single quadrupole mass spectrometry.

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Hair ethyl glucuronide and serum carbohydrate deficient transferrin for the assessment of relapse in alcohol-dependent patients.

scientific article published on 3 February 2016

Hair ethyl glucuronide as a biomarker of alcohol consumption in alcohol-dependent patients: role of gender differences.

scientific article published on 2 June 2014

Hair ethyl glucuronide concentrations in teetotalers: Should we re-evaluate the lower cut-off?

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Hair ethyl glucuronide levels as a marker for alcohol use and abuse: a review of the current state of the art.

scientific article published on 30 October 2013

Identification of in vitro and in vivo human metabolites of the new psychoactive substance nitracaine by liquid chromatography coupled to quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry.

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Identification of in vitro metabolites of ethylphenidate by liquid chromatography coupled to quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry

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Illicit drug consumption estimations derived from wastewater analysis: a critical review.

scientific article published on 18 June 2010

Improving wastewater-based epidemiology to estimate cannabis use: focus on the initial aspects of the analytical procedure.

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In vitro Phase I and Phase II metabolism of the new designer benzodiazepine cloniprazepam using liquid chromatography coupled to quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry.

scientific article published on 21 February 2018

In vitro Phase I and Phase II metabolism of α-pyrrolidinovalerophenone (α-PVP), methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and methedrone by human liver microsomes and human liver cytosol.

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In vitro and in vivo human metabolism of the synthetic cannabinoid AB-CHMINACA.

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Influence of repeated permanent coloring and bleaching on ethyl glucuronide concentrations in hair from alcohol-dependent patients

scientific article published on 09 December 2014

Investigating in-sewer transformation products formed from synthetic cathinones and phenethylamines using liquid chromatography coupled to quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 06 April 2018

Investigation of agreement between wastewater-based epidemiology and survey data on alcohol and nicotine use in a community.

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Keratinous matrices for the assessment of drugs of abuse consumption: A correlation study between hair and nails.

scientific article published on 5 January 2018

Levamisole: a common adulterant in cocaine street samples hindering electrochemical detection of cocaine

scientific article published on 23 February 2018

Levels of 4-(methylnitrosamino)-1-(3-pyridyl)-1-butanone (NNK) in raw wastewater as an innovative perspective for investigating population-wide exposure to third-hand smoke

scientific article published in Scientific Reports

Lipidomics profiling of zebrafish liver through untargeted liquid chromatography‐high resolution mass spectrometry

scientific article published in 2022

Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry Analysis of Biomarkers of Exposure to Phosphorus Flame Retardants in Wastewater to Monitor Community-Wide Exposure.

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Liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry for screening in vitro drug metabolites in humans: investigation on seven phenethylamine-based designer drugs.

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Liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry determination of synthetic cathinones and phenethylamines in influent wastewater of eight European cities

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Mass Spectrometry-Based Zebrafish Toxicometabolomics: A Review of Analytical and Data Quality Challenges

scientific article published on 18 September 2021

Mass spectrometric strategies for the investigation of biomarkers of illicit drug use in wastewater

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Metabolic Signature of Ethanol-Induced Hepatotoxicity in HepaRG Cells by Liquid Chromatography–Mass Spectrometry-Based Untargeted Metabolomics

scientific article published in 2022

Mining the Chemical Information on Urban Wastewater: Monitoring Human Exposure to Phosphorus Flame Retardants and Plasticizers

scientific article published on 11 June 2018

Multi-year inter-laboratory exercises for the analysis of illicit drugs and metabolites in wastewater: Development of a quality control system

scholarly article by Alexander L.N. van Nuijs et al published June 2018 in Trends in Analytical Chemistry

Novel Wastewater-Based Epidemiology Approach Based on Liquid Chromatography-Tandem Mass Spectrometry for Assessing Population Exposure to Tobacco-Specific Toxicants and Carcinogens.

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Optimization and validation of a hydrophilic interaction liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry method for the determination of 13 top-prescribed pharmaceuticals in influent wastewater

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Optimization, validation, and the application of liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry for the analysis of new drugs of abuse in wastewater

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Potentiometric detection in UPLC as an easy alternative to determine cocaine in biological samples

scientific article published on 16 December 2014

Profiles and changes in stimulant use in Belgium in the period of 2011-2015.

scientific article published on 29 May 2016

Qualitative screening for new psychoactive substances in wastewater collected during a city festival using liquid chromatography coupled to high-resolution mass spectrometry

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Qualitative screening of new psychoactive substances in pooled urine samples from Belgium and United Kingdom

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Risk assessment for drugs of abuse in the Dutch watercycle.

scientific article published on 17 January 2013

Screening for illicit drugs in pooled human urine and urinated soil samples and studies on the stability of urinary excretion products of cocaine, MDMA, and MDEA in wastewater by hyphenated mass spectrometry techniques.

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Sewage epidemiology--a real-time approach to estimate the consumption of illicit drugs in Brussels, Belgium

scientific article published on 22 January 2011

Sewage-based epidemiology in monitoring the use of new psychoactive substances: Validation and application of an analytical method using LC-MS/MS

scientific article published on 06 February 2015

Simultaneous determination of 15 top-prescribed pharmaceuticals and their metabolites in influent wastewater by reversed-phase liquid chromatography coupled to tandem mass spectrometry

scientific article published on 4 November 2010

Spatial and temporal trends in alcohol consumption in Belgian cities: A wastewater-based approach

scientific article published on 14 January 2016

Spatial and temporal variations in the occurrence of cocaine and benzoylecgonine in waste- and surface water from Belgium and removal during wastewater treatment

scientific article published on 25 December 2008

Spatial differences and temporal changes in illicit drug use in Europe quantified by wastewater analysis

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Spatio-temporal assessment of illicit drug use at large scale: evidence from 7 years of international wastewater monitoring

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Suspect and non-target screening workflows to investigate the in vitro and in vivo metabolism of the synthetic cannabinoid 5Cl-THJ-018

scientific article published on 23 October 2018

The influence of the body mass index (BMI) on the volume of distribution of ethanol

scientific article published on 6 May 2014

The stability of illicit drugs and metabolites in wastewater, an important issue for sewage epidemiology?

scientific article published on 21 April 2012

Wastewater-based epidemiology to assess pan-European pesticide exposure.

scientific article published on 21 May 2017