“…Numerous methods such as radioimmunoassay, immunoaffinity chromatography, gas chromatography, immunoassay, HPLC, and LC-MS have been developed for the screening and confirmation of DXM and other steroids in equine post-race urine samples (Skrabalak et al, 1984;Friedrich et al, 1992;Stanley et al, 1993;Gu et al, 1996;Ribeiro Neto et al, 1997a,b;Grippa et al, 2000;Tang et al, 2001). These methods were developed for screening and confirmation for forensic purposes and were not specific or sufficiently sensitive for the adequate determination of pharmacokinetics of DXM in the equine.…”