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Volker Auwärter

Volker Auwärter

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Chemistry

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48
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8068
World Ranking
15260
National Ranking
1115

Overview

Volker Auwärter is affiliated with the University of Freiburg in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics. Within these broad domains, key subfields include Toxicology, Pharmacology, Clinical Psychology, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology.

The main topics of Volker Auwärter's scientific work are centered on Forensic Toxicology and Drug Analysis, Psychedelics and Drug Studies, Cannabis and Cannabinoid Research, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, Opioid Use Disorder Treatment, Poisoning and Overdose Treatments, and Metabolomics and Mass Spectrometry Studies.

Frequent collaborators in their research include Benedikt Pulver, Arianna Giorgetti, Francesco Paolo Busardò, Folker Westphal, and Belal Haschimi.

Volker Auwärter has contributed extensively to various academic journals. The most frequent publication venues for their work are Drug Testing and Analysis, Annales de Toxicologie Analytique, Archives of Toxicology, Journal of Analytical Toxicology, and Frontiers in Psychiatry.

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Volker Auwärter include:

  • Post-Mortem Toxicology: A Systematic Review of Death Cases Involving Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists, 2020, Frontiers in Psychiatry
  • A transnational perspective on the evolution of the synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists market: Comparing prison and general populations, 2021, Drug Testing and Analysis
  • Systematic evaluation of a panel of 30 synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists structurally related to MMB-4en-PICA, MDMB-4en-PINACA, ADB-4en-PINACA, and MMB-4CN-BUTINACA using a combination of binding and different CB1 receptor activation assays-Part II: Structure activity relationship assessment via a β-arrestin recruitment assay, 2021, Drug Testing and Analysis
  • Systematic evaluation of a panel of 30 synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists structurally related to MMB-4en-PICA, MDMB-4en-PINACA, ADB-4en-PINACA, and MMB-4CN-BUTINACA using a combination of binding and different CB1 receptor activation assays: Part I-Synthesis, analytical characterization, and binding affinity for human CB1 receptors, 2021, Drug Testing and Analysis
  • Development and validation of a rapid LC-MS/MS method for the detection of 182 novel psychoactive substances in whole blood, 2021, Drug Testing and Analysis

Best Publications

  • 'Spice' and other herbal blends: harmless incense or cannabinoid designer drugs?

    Volker Auwärter;Sebastian Dresen;Wolfgang Weinmann;Michael Müller

  • Monitoring of herbal mixtures potentially containing synthetic cannabinoids as psychoactive compounds

    Sebastian Dresen;Nerea Ferreirós;Nerea Ferreirós;Michael Pütz;Folker Westphal

  • Comparison of ethyl glucuronide and fatty acid ethyl ester concentrations in hair of alcoholics, social drinkers and teetotallers

    M. Yegles;A. Labarthe;V. Auwärter;S. Hartwig

  • Fatty acid ethyl esters in hair as markers of alcohol consumption. Segmental hair analysis of alcoholics, social drinkers, and teetotalers

    Volker Auwärter;Frank Sporkert;Sven Hartwig;Fritz Pragst

  • Detection and Activity Profiling of Synthetic Cannabinoids and Their Metabolites with a Newly Developed Bioassay.

    Annelies Cannaert;Jolien Storme;Florian Franz;Volker Auwärter

  • Development and validation of a liquid chromatography–tandem mass spectrometry method for the quantitation of synthetic cannabinoids of the aminoalkylindole type and methanandamide in serum and its application to forensic samples

    Sebastian Dresen;Sebastian Dresen;Stefan Kneisel;Wolfgang Weinmann;Ralf Zimmermann

  • Identification of the major urinary metabolites in man of seven synthetic cannabinoids of the aminoalkylindole type present as adulterants in 'herbal mixtures' using LC-MS/MS techniques.

    M. Hutter;S. Broecker;S. Kneisel;V. Auwärter

  • Analysis of 30 synthetic cannabinoids in serum by liquid chromatography‐electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry after liquid‐liquid extraction

    Stefan Kneisel;Volker Auwärter

  • Identification of 48 homologues of phosphatidylethanol in blood by LC-ESI-MS/MS

    H. Gnann;C. Engelmann;G. Skopp;M. Winkler

  • Metabolic Pathways and Potencies of New Fentanyl Analogs.

    Maurice Wilde;Simona Pichini;Roberta Pacifici;Adriano Tagliabracci

  • Concentration of fatty acid ethyl esters in hair of alcoholics: comparison to other biological state markers and self reported-ethanol intake.

    Friedrich Martin Wurst;Stefan Alexson;Manfred Wolfersdorf;Gaby Bechtel

  • Determination of 22 synthetic cannabinoids in human hair by liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry.

    Melanie Hutter;Stefan Kneisel;Volker Auwärter;Merja A. Neukamm

  • Effect of hair care and hair cosmetics on the concentrations of fatty acid ethyl esters in hair as markers of chronically elevated alcohol consumption

    Sven Hartwig;Volker Auwärter;Fritz Pragst

  • Characteristics of the designer drug and synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonist AM‐2201 regarding its chemistry and metabolism

    Melanie Hutter;Melanie Hutter;Bjoern Moosmann;Bjoern Moosmann;Stefan Kneisel;Stefan Kneisel;Volker Auwärter

  • Continuous microfluidic DNA extraction using phase-transfer magnetophoresis

    Marc Karle;Junichi Miwa;Gregor Czilwik;Volker Auwärter

  • Detection and identification of the designer benzodiazepine flubromazepam and preliminary data on its metabolism and pharmacokinetics.

    Bjoern Moosmann;Bjoern Moosmann;Laura M. Huppertz;Melanie Hutter;Melanie Hutter;Armin Buchwald

  • Characterization of the designer benzodiazepine diclazepam and preliminary data on its metabolism and pharmacokinetics.

    Bjoern Moosmann;Bjoern Moosmann;Philippe Bisel;Volker Auwärter

  • Post-Mortem Toxicology: A Systematic Review of Death Cases Involving Synthetic Cannabinoid Receptor Agonists.

    Arianna Giorgetti;Arianna Giorgetti;Francesco Paolo Busardò;Roberta Tittarelli;Volker Auwärter

  • Analysis of 30 synthetic cannabinoids in oral fluid using liquid chromatography‐electrospray ionization tandem mass spectrometry

    Stefan Kneisel;Stefan Kneisel;Volker Auwärter;Jürgen Kempf;Jürgen Kempf

  • Activity-Based Detection of Consumption of Synthetic Cannabinoids in Authentic Urine Samples Using a Stable Cannabinoid Reporter System.

    Annelies Cannaert;Florian Franz;Volker Auwärter;Christophe P. Stove

  • Detection of the recently emerged synthetic cannabinoid 5F–MDMB-PICA in ‘legal high’ products and human urine samples

    Lukas Mogler;Florian Franz;Daniel Rentsch;Verena Angerer

  • Studies on the metabolism and toxicological detection of the new psychoactive designer drug 2-(4-iodo-2,5-dimethoxyphenyl)- N -[(2-methoxyphenyl)methyl]ethanamine (25I-NBOMe) in human and rat urine using GC-MS, LC-MS n , and LC-HR-MS/MS

    Achim T. Caspar;Andreas G. Helfer;Julian A. Michely;Volker Auwärter

  • Separation and structural characterization of the synthetic cannabinoids JWH-412 and 1-[(5-fluoropentyl)-1H-indol-3yl]-(4-methylnaphthalen-1-yl)methanone using GC-MS, NMR analysis and a flash chromatography system.

    Bjoern Moosmann;Stefan Kneisel;Ulrich Girreser;Volker Brecht

Frequent Co-Authors

Wolfgang Weinmann
Wolfgang Weinmann University of Bern
Siegfried Knasmüller
Siegfried Knasmüller Medical University of Vienna
Hans H. Maurer
Hans H. Maurer Saarland University
Michael Müller
Michael Müller Forschungszentrum Jülich
Ralf Zimmermann
Ralf Zimmermann University of Rostock
Stefan Schmidt
Stefan Schmidt University of Freiburg
Michael Kassiou
Michael Kassiou University of Sydney
Frank van Bel
Frank van Bel Utrecht University
Ulrike Schmidt
Ulrike Schmidt King's College London
Floris Groenendaal
Floris Groenendaal Utrecht University

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