“…To date, several analytic methods have been developed for the determination of FLV in plasma: gas chromatography (Lacassie et al, 2000;Lamas et al, 2004), gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (Wille et al, 2005;Salgado-Petinal et al, 2005), high-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) (Palego et al, 2000;Saracino et al, 2006;Ulu, 2007;Ertürk et al, 2005;Frahnert et al, 2003) and high-performance liquid chromatographymass spectrometry (Kirchherr and Kuhn-Velten, 2006;Shinozuka et al, 2006). All of these studies require pretreatment of plasma samples before analysis, as plasma is one of the most difficult biological matrices to analyze.…”