Screening and determination of benzodiazepines in whole blood using solid-phase extraction and gas chromatography/mass spectrometry

Forensic Science International

Volumn 113, Issue 1-3, 2000, Pages 367-373

  Inoue, Hiroyuki ^a   Maeno, Yoshitaka ^a   Iwasa, Mineo ^a   Matoba, Ryoji ^b   Nagao, Masataka ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

^b OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepines; Gas chromatography mass spectrometry; Solid phase extraction

Indexed keywords

ALPRAZOLAM; BENZODIAZEPINE DERIVATIVE; BROMAZEPAM; BROTIZOLAM; CHLORDIAZEPOXIDE; CLONAZEPAM; CLOXAZOLAM; DIAZEPAM; ESTAZOLAM; ETIZOLAM; FLUDIAZEPAM; FLUNITRAZEPAM; FLURAZEPAM; HALOXAZOLAM; MEDAZEPAM; MEXAZOLAM; NIMETAZEPAM; NITRAZEPAM; OXAZOLAM; TRIAZOLAM;

ANALYTICAL EQUIPMENT; BLOOD; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG DETERMINATION; DRUG SCREENING; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; HUMAN; MASS SPECTROMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOLID PHASE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0343878145     PISSN: 03790738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0379-0738(00)00226-7     Document Type: Conference Paper

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