“…Various analytical methods for the determination of dextromethorphan and/or its metabolites in biological matrices have been reported, such as high-performance liquid chromatography combined with fluorescence detection (East and Dye, 1985;Johansson and Svensson, 1988;Chen et al, 1990;Lam and Rodriquez, 1993;Hartter et al, 1996;Bartoletti et al, 1996;Kimiskidis et al, 1996;Bendriss et al, 2001;Hendrickson et al, 2003;Afhsar et al, 2004;Lin et al, 2007) or ultraviolet detection (Park et al, 1984;Vielnascher et al, 1996), capillary electrophoresis (Kristensen, 1998), gas chromatography coupled with different detectors (Pfaff et al, 1983;Bauman and Jonzier-Perey 1988;Wu et al, 2003;Bagheri et al, 2005;Rodriques et al, 2008) and liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (Vengurlekar et al, 2002;Arellano et al, 2005;Constanzer et al, 2005). GC/MS in the SIM mode and LC-MS/MS are the preferred methods in terms of sensitivity and selectivity.…”