Exploration of anthropological specimens by GC-MS and chemometrics

Mass Spectrometry Reviews

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 427-452

  Varmuza, Kurt ^a   Makristathis, Athanasios ^b   Schwarzmeier, Josef ^c,d   Seidler, Horst ^e   Mader, Robert M ^b,c  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^d LUDWIG BOLTZMANN INSTITUTE FOR LUNG VASCULAR RESEARCH   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Adipocere; Fatty acid profiles; GC MS; Multivariate data analysis; Mummies; Tyrolean Iceman

Indexed keywords

DEGRADATION; DNA; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; FATTY ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; MACROMOLECULES; PATHOLOGY; PROTEINS;

ADIPOCERE; FATTY ACID PROFILES; MULTIVARIATE DATA ANALYSIS; TYROLEAN ICEMAN;

MASS SPECTROMETRY;

FATTY ACID;

ANTHROPOLOGY; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; METHODOLOGY; PALEOPATHOLOGY; REVIEW;

ANTHROPOLOGY; FATTY ACIDS; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; MUMMIES;

EID: 18344383945     PISSN: 02777037     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mas.20020     Document Type: Article

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