Detection of the sarin hydrolysis product in formalin-fixed brain tissues of victims of the Tokyo subway terrorist attack

Toxicology and Applied Pharmacology

Volumn 150, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 310-320

  Matsuda, Yukimasa ^a   Nagao, Masataka ^a   Takatori, Takehiko ^a   Niijima, Hitoshi ^a   Nakajima, Makoto ^a   Iwase, Hirotaro ^a   Kobayashi, Masahiko ^a   Iwadate, Kimiharu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; DRUG METABOLITE; SARIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DERIVATIZATION; DRUG IDENTIFICATION; ENZYME BINDING; ERYTHROCYTE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOAFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; JAPAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; TECHNIQUE; VICTIM;

EID: 0032103413     PISSN: 0041008X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/taap.1998.8428     Document Type: Article

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