Tobacco and Volatiles Branch, Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Tobacco and Volatiles Branch, Division of Laboratory Sciences, National Center for Environmental Health, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA.
Int J Hyg Environ Health. 2021 Jun;235:113749. doi: 10.1016/j.ijheh.2021.113749. Epub 2021 May 4.
Increased interest in volatile organic compound (VOC) exposure has led to an increased need for consistent, systematic, and informative naming of VOC metabolites. As analytical methods have expanded to include many metabolites in a single assay, the number of acronyms in use for a single metabolite has expanded in an unplanned and inconsistent manner due to a lack of guidance or group consensus. Even though the measurement of VOC metabolites is a well-established means to investigate exposure to VOCs, a formal attempt to harmonize acronyms amongst investigators has not been published. The aim of this work is to establish a system of acronym naming that provides consistency in current acronym usage and a foundation for creating acronyms for future VOC metabolites.
人们对挥发性有机化合物 (VOC) 暴露的兴趣日益浓厚，这导致人们对 VOC 代谢物的命名需要更加一致、系统和富有信息。随着分析方法扩展到在单次测定中包含许多代谢物，由于缺乏指导或团体共识，单个代谢物使用的缩写数量呈无计划和不一致的方式扩展。尽管测量 VOC 代谢物是一种用于研究 VOC 暴露的成熟方法，但尚未发表一项针对调查人员之间缩写统一的正式尝试。这项工作的目的是建立一个缩写命名系统，为当前缩写用法提供一致性，并为未来的 VOC 代谢物创建缩写提供基础。
