Analytical and Clinical Toxicology
2019
Hendrickson RG, Akpunonu P, Hughes R, Gerona R. Highly potent fentanyl analogs: apnea from exposure to small quantities of β-hydroxyfentanyl and furanylfentanyl. Clinical Toxicology 2019 Mar 19; 1-3.
Gershman K, Timm K, Frank M, Lampi L, Melamed J, Gerona R, Monte AA. Deaths in Colorado Attributed to Kratom. New England Journal of Medicine. 2019 Jan 03; 380(1): 97-98
2018
Cohen PA, Wen A, Gerona R. Prohibited Stimulants in Dietary Supplements After Enforcement Action by the US Food and Drug Administration. JAMA Intern Med. 2018 Oct 22.
Banister SD, Adams A, Kevin RC, Macdonald C, Glass M, Boyd R, Connor M, McGregor IS, Havel CM, Bright SJ, Ventura M, Gil C, Barratt MJ, Gerona R. Synthesis and pharmacology of new psychoactive substance 5F-CUMYL-P7AICA, a scaffold hopping analogue of synthetic cannabinoid receptor agonists 5F-CUMYL-PICA and 5F-CUMYL-PINACA. Drug Test Anal. 2018 Aug 27.
2017
Tapp L, Ramsey JG, Wen A, Gerona R. Synthetic Cannabinoid and Mitragynine Exposure of Law Enforcement Agents During the Raid of an Illegal Laboratory - Nevada, 2014. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2017 Dec 01; 66(47): 1291-1294.
Others
Adams AJ, Banister SD, Irizarry L, Trecki J, Schwartz M, Gerona R. 2016. "Zombie" outbreak caused by synthetic cannabinoid AMB-FUBINACA in New York. New England Journal of Medicine. 376(3): 235-242.
Trecki J, Gerona R, Schwartz M. 2015. Synthetic Cannabinoid-Related Illnesses and Deaths. New England Journal of Medicine. 373:103-107
Environmental Chemical Biomonitoring
2019
Hyland C, Bradman A, Gerona R, Patton S, Zakharevich I, Gunier RB, Klein K. Organic diet intervention significantly reduces urinary pesticide levels in U.S. children and adults. Environ Res. 2019 Jan 29.
Gorence GJ, Pulcastro HC, Lawson CA, Gerona R, Friesen M, Horan TS, Gieske MC, Sartain CV, Hunt PA. Chemical Contaminants from Plastics in the Animal Environment. J Am Assoc Lab Anim Sci. 2019 Jan 15
2018
Horan TS, Pulcastro H, Lawson C, Gerona R, Martin S, Gieske MC, Sartain CV, Hunt PA. Replacement Bisphenols Adversely Affect Mouse Gametogenesis with Consequences for Subsequent Generations. Curr Biol. 2018 Aug 18
Wang A, Gerona R, Schwartz JM, Lin T, Sirota M, Morello-Frosch R, Woodruff TJ. A Suspect Screening Method for Characterizing Multiple Chemical Exposures among a Demographically Diverse Population of Pregnant Women in San Francisco. Environmental Health Perspective. 2018 07; 126(7):077009.
2017
Gerona R, Schwartz JM, Pan J, Friesen MM, Lin T, Woodruff TJ. Suspect screening of maternal serum to identify new environmental chemical biomonitoring targets using liquid chromatography-quadrupole time-of-flight mass spectrometry. J Expo Sci Environ Epidemiol. 2017 Oct 11.
Others
VandeVoort CA, Gerona R, Vom Saal, F, Tarantal A, Hunt PA, Hillenweck A, Zalko D. 2016, Bisphenol A pharmacokinetics in the pregnant rhesus monkey: uptake by the placenta, distribution in maternal and fetal tissues, and conjugation in sulfate and glucuronidated forms. PLoS One, 11(12):e0165410.
Gerona R, J Pan, A Zota, J Schwartz, M Friesen, JA Taylor, P Hunt, T Woodruff. 2016. Direct measurement of Bisphenol A (BPA), BPA glucuronide and BPA sulfate in a diverse and low-income population of pregnant women reveals high exposure, with potential implications for previous exposure estimates: a cross-sectional study. Environ Health. April 12, 2016, 15:50. doi: 10.1186/s12940-016-0131-2.
MacIsaac, J, Gerona R, P Blanc, L Apatira, M Friesen, M Coppolino, S Janssen. 2014. Healthcare Worker Exposures to the Antibacterial Agent Triclosan. J Occup Environ Med 56(8): 834-9.
Gerona R, TJ Woodruff, CA Dickenson, J Pan, JM Schwartz, S Sen, M Friesen, VY Fujimoto, and PA Hunt. 2013. BPA, BPA glucuronide and BPA sulfate in mid-gestation umbilical cord serum in a northern California cohort. Environmental Science Technology. 47(21): 12477-85
MDR-TB Drug Hair Analysis
2019
Gerona R, Wen A, Aguilar D, Shum J, Reckers A, Bacchetti P, Gandhi M, Metcalfe J. Simultaneous analysis of 11 medications for drug resistant TB in small hair samples to quantify adherence and exposure using a validated LC-MS/MS panel. J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci. 2019 09 01; 1125:121729. PMID: 31369929.
Metcalfe J, Bacchetti P, Gerona R, Esmail A, Dheda K, Gandhi M. Association of anti-tuberculosis drug concentrations in hair and treatment outcomes in MDR- and XDR-TB. ERJ Open Res. 2019 Apr; 5(2). PMID: 31041318.
2017
Metcalfe J, Gerona R, Wen A, Bacchetti P, Gandhi M. An LC-MS/MS-based method to analyze the anti-tuberculosis drug bedaquiline in hair. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2017 Sep 01; 21(9): 1069-1070.
Mave V, Kinikar A, Kagal A, Nimkar S, Koli H, Khwaja S, Bharadwaj R, Gerona R, Wen A, Ramachandran G, Kumar H, Bacchetti P, Dooley KE, Gupte N, Gupta A, Gandhi M. Isoniazid concentrations in hair and plasma area-under-the-curve exposure among children with tuberculosis. PLoS One. 2017; 12(12):e0189101. PMID: 29216273. PMCID: PMC5720757
Others
Gerona R, Wen A, Koss C, Bacchetti P, Gandhi M, Metcalfe J. 2016. A multi-analyte panel for non-invasive pharmacokinetic monitoring of second-line anti-tuberculosis drugs. Inter J Tuberculosis and Lung Disease. 20(7): 991-2.
Gerona R, Wen A, Chin AT, Koss CA, Bacchetti P, Metcalfe J, Gandhi M. Quantifying Isoniazid Levels in Small Hair Samples: A Novel Method for Assessing Adherence during the Treatment of Latent and Active Tuberculosis. PLoS One. 2016; 11(5): e0155887.
Small Molecule Analysis
2017
Green AJ, Gelfand JM, Cree BA, Bevan C, Boscardin WJ, Mei F, Inman J, Arnow S, Devereux M, Abounasr A, Nobuta H, Zhu A, Friessen M, Gerona R, von Budingen HC, Henry RG, Hauser SL, Chan JR. Clemastine fumarate as a remyelinating therapy for multiple sclerosis (ReBUILD): a randomised, controlled, double-blind, crossover trial. Lancet. 2017 Oct 10.
Zee T, Bose N, Zee J, Beck JN, Yang S, Parihar J, Yang M, Damodar S, Hall D, O'Leary MN, Ramanathan A, Gerona R, Killilea DW, Chi T, Tischfield J, Sahota A, Kahn A, Stoller ML, Kapahi P. 2017. α- Lipoic acid treatment prevents cystine urolithiasis in a mouse model of cystinuria. Nature Medicine 23(3): 288-90.