Analysis of ecgonine and other cocaine biotransformation products in postmortem whole blood by protein precipitation-extractive alkylation and GC- MS

Journal of Analytical Toxicology

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 463-467

  Smirnow, David ^a   Logan, Barry K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 NITROBENZOIC ACID; COCAINE; ECGONINE;

ALKYLATION; ARTICLE; BIOTRANSFORMATION; BLOOD SAMPLING; CADAVER; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRECIPITATION;

EID: 0029819421     PISSN: 01464760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jat/20.6.463     Document Type: Article

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