An in vitro experiment for postmortem vascular permeation. The passage of morphine and morphine glucuronides across a vascular wall

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 486-491

  Skopp, Gisela ^a,c   Lutz, Rainer ^a   Pötsch, Lucia ^b   Ganßmann, Beate ^a   Klinder, Klaus ^a   Schmidt, Achim ^a   Aderjan, Rolf ^a   Mattern, Rainer ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Institute of Legal Medicine   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chien Valia diffusion chamber; forensic science; forensic toxicology; morphine; morphine glucuronides; postmortem diffusion; postmortem redistribution; Rhodamine B; vascular permeability

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; MORPHINE 3 GLUCURONIDE; MORPHINE 6 GLUCURONIDE; RHODAMINE B;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; DRUG DIFFUSION; DRUG PENETRATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFERIOR CAVA VEIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031001678     PISSN: 00221198     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1520/jfs14152j     Document Type: Article

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