Difficulty of interpretation of rates concerning benzodiazepines and other anxiolytic molecules in post mortem blood taken during autopsy: Study of their degradation in vitro after 6-months storage at different temperatures;Difficulte d'interpretation des taux des benzodiazepines et molecules apparentees dans le sang de cadavre preleve a l'autopsie: Etude de leur degradation in vitro apres conservation pendant 6 mois a differentes temperatures

Journal de Medecine Legale Droit Medical

Volumn 41, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 341-353

  Pepin G ^a   Dubourvieux, N ^a   Gaillard, Y ^a  

^a Laboratoire d'Expertises TOXLAB   (France)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepines; Blood; Buspirone; Degradation; Post mortem; Zolpidem; Zopiclone

Indexed keywords

ANXIOLYTIC AGENT; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BROMAZEPAM; BUSPIRONE; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CLONAZEPAM; DEMOXEPAM; FLUNITRAZEPAM; LOFLAZEPATE; LOPRAZOLAM; LORAZEPAM; NITRAZEPAM; ZOLPIDEM; ZOPICLONE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; DRUG DEGRADATION; DRUG DETERMINATION; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; STORAGE; TEMPERATURE; TOXICOLOGY;

EID: 0031751937     PISSN: 02496208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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