Glycine-modified growth hormone secretagogues identified in seized doping material / Paulina Marta Gajda, Niels Bjerre Holm, Lars Jakobsen Hoej, Brian Schou Rasmussen, Petur Weihe Dalsgaard, Lotte Ask Reitzel, Kristian Linnet. - (Drug Testing and Analysis 11 (2019) 2 (February); p. 350-354)
- PMID: 30136411
- DOI: 10.1002/dta.2489
Abstract
A number of unknown pharmaceutical preparations seized by Danish customs authorities were submitted for liquid chromatography-high resolution mass spectrometry (LC-HRMS) analysis. Comparison with reference standards unequivocally identified the content of the powders as analogs of the growth hormone secretagogues GHRP-2 (Pralmorelin), GHRP-6, Ipamorelin, and modified growth hormone releasing factor (modified GRF 1-29), which can be used as performance-enhancing substances in sports. In all cases, the detected modification involved the addition of an extra glycine amino acid at the N-terminus, and analytical methods targeting growth hormone secretagogues should hence be updated accordingly.