1-Hydroxypyrene

Scope & Reporting Limit 1-Hydroxypyrene 0.4 ng/mL urine
Acode 2358U (Urine)
Method of Analysis High Performance Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS)
Specimen Requirements 4 mL Urine. Transport Temperature:Frozen. Specimens must be maintained frozen since 1-Hydroxypyrene is not stable. Specimens received room temperature or refrigerated will be rejected.

Tramadol Screen

Scope & Reporting Limit Tramadol: 150 ng/mL urine
Acode 9287U (Urine)
Method of Analysis Immunoassay (IA)
Specimen Requirements 2 mL Urine
Pharmacokinetics Approximately 30% of a dose is excreted as unchanged Tramadol in the urine.

Meperidine Screen

Scope & Reporting Limit Meperidine: 0.20 mcg/mL
Acode 9444U (Urine)
Method of Analysis Immunoassay (IA)
Reporting Limit Meperidine: 0.20 mcg/mL
Specimen Requirements 4 mL Urine

Hypoglycemic Panel

Scope & Reporting Limit Acetohexamide (Dymelor®): 300 ng/mL
Chlorpropamide (Diabinese®): 300 ng/mL
Glimepiride (Amaryl®): 5 ng/mL
Glipizide (Glucotrol®): 5 ng/mL
Glyburide (Micronase®): 5 ng/mL
Nateglinide (Starlix®): 50 ng/mL
Repaglinide (Prandin®): 10 ng/mL
Tolazamide (Tolinase®): 300 ng/mL
Tolbutamide (Orinase®): 300 ng/mL
Acode 4261B (Blood), 4261SP (Serum/Plasma)
Urine is not an acceptable matrix
Method of Analysis High Performance Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS)
Specimen Requirements 1 mL of Blood, Serum or Plasma
The use of serum separator tubes is not acceptable.
Submission of a serum separator tube will result in cancellation.
Stability Ambient: 7 days
Refrigerated: 14 days
Frozen (-20 C): 14 days

Eszopiclone/Zopiclone

Scope & Reporting Limit Eszopiclone /Zopiclone
2.0 ng/mL Blood, Serum, Plasma, or Urine
Acode 1968B (Blood)
1968SP (Serum/Plasma)
1968U (Urine)
Method of Analysis High Performance Liquid Chromatography/Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS)
Specimen Requirements 1 mL Serum, Plasma, Blood or Urine. Freeze and ship frozen. Analysis of tissue samples also available. Contact lab for more information.

The use of serum separator tubes is not acceptable.
Special Handling Specimens must be maintained frozen since Eszopiclone / Zopiclone is not stable.
Pharmacokinetics This test is not Chiral specific. Patients who have taken racemic Zopiclone (not approved in the US), as opposed to Eszopiclone (Lunesta®), within the past day may have falsely elevated values.

A single 3 mg Eszopiclone oral dose produced peak serum concentrations of 20 to 30 ng/mL within 2 hours.

Once daily 2 mg Eszopiclone oral doses given to elderly adults for 7 days resulted in a peak serum concentration of approximately 15 ng/mL.

Depleted Uranium

Acode 9230U (Urine) Uranium, Total and Depleted Screen
Scope & Reporting Limit Depleted Uranium
0.10 mcg/L
Method of Analysis Inductively Coupled Plasma/Mass Spectrometry (ICP/MS)
Specimen Requirements 10 mL Urine
Reporting Comment U235 percentage in individuals exposed to depleted Uranium is in the range of 0.20% - 0.33% of total Uranium.
Uranium. Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. www.atsdr.cdc.gov/. September 1999.

Tizanidine

Acodes 4487B (Blood) and 4487SP (Serum/Plasma)
Scope & Reporting Limit Tizanidine (Zanaflex®)
0.2 ng/mL
Method of Analysis Liquid Chromatography/ Tandem Mass Spectrometry (LC/MS/MS)
Specimen Requirements 1 mL Serum, Plasma, or Blood.
The use of serum separator tubes is not recommended.
Pharmacokinetics Based on a few human pharmacokinetic studies, the following therapeutic data was reported:

1Cmax (mean ±S.D.)= 25.8 ± 8.5 ng/mL at 1.3 hrs. (Single 8 mg oral dose)
2Cmax (mean ±S.D.)= 3.1 ± 1.3 ng/mL at 1.0 hr., decreasing to less than 1 ng/mL after 6 hrs. (Single 5 mg oral dose)
3Cmax (mean ±S.D.)= 2.5 ± 1.1 ng/mL at 0.9 hours after the last dose (Chronic 4 mg orally q 8 hrs. for 7 days)
References Based on a few human pharmacokinetic studies, the following therapeutic data was reported:

1Mathias, C.J., J. Luckwitt, D. Pankaj, H. Baker, W.E. Masri and H.L. Frankel (1989): "Pharmacodynamics and pharmacokinetics of the oral antispastic agent tizanidine in patients with spinal cord injury," J. Rehab. Res. 26: 9-16.
2Tse, F.L.S., J.M. Jaffe, and S. Bhuta (1987): "Pharmacokinetics of orally administrated tizanidine in healthy volunteers," Fundam. Clin. Pharmacol. 1:479-488.
3Shellenberger, M.K., L. Groves, J. Shah and G.D. Novack (1999): "A controlled pharmacokinetic evaluation of tizanidine and baclofen at steady state," Drug Metab. Disp. 27: 201-204.

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