Stuart J. Dickson
Wellington Management Company
15 Papers
208 Citations
Stuart J. Dickson is an academic researcher from Wellington Management Company. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cotinine & Nicotine. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 15 publications.
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Papers
The detection of sedatives in hair and nail samples using tandem LC–MS–MS
TL;DR: Hair matrix components in the hair matrix gave the same transitions as some of the analytes but did not compromise the analyses because their retention times differed from those for the target compounds.
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Within-Subject Variation of the Salivary 3HC/COT Ratio in Regular Daily Smokers: Prospects for Estimating CYP2A6 Enzyme Activity in Large-Scale Surveys of Nicotine Metabolic Rate
TL;DR: The data provide evidence that within-subject variation in salivary 3HC/COT ratio is not dependent on the time of sampling during the day and should be useful for designing large-scale population surveys to assess the variation in the metabolic rate of nicotine (via CYP2A6) in smokers.
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The recovery of illicit drugs from oral fluid sampling devices
Stuart J. Dickson,Alexandra Park,Susan L. Nolan,Sarah Kenworthy,Cheryl Nicholson,Julie Midgley,Rowena Pinfold,Scott Hampton +7 more
TL;DR: Of the three systems studied, only the Cozart product gave acceptable recovery of THC from drug-spiked oral fluid, which gave the most sensitive and discriminating screening assays for the drugs studied, namely THC, benzodiazepines, methamphetamine and morphine.
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Legislation reduces exposure to second-hand tobacco smoke in New Zealand bars by about 90%.
Dinusha Fernando,Jefferson Fowles,Alistair Woodward,Annemarie Christophersen,Stuart J. Dickson,Matthew Hosking,Richard Berezowski,Rodney Arthur Lea +7 more
TL;DR: Comprehensive smoke-free legislation in New Zealand seems to have reduced exposure of bar patrons to SHS by about 90%.
Tobacco particulate matter is more potent than nicotine at upregulating nicotinic receptors on SH-SY5Y cells.
Vikki Ambrose,John H. Miller,Stuart J. Dickson,Scott Hampton,Penelope Truman,Rodney Arthur Lea,Jefferson Fowles +6 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that TPM contains compounds that are toxic to cells at high concentrations but that do not compete with nicotine for binding to nAChRs (Scatchard analysis).
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