Simultaneous determination of hydrogen cyanide and volatile aliphatic nitriles by headspace gas chromatography, and its application to an in vivo study of the metabolism of acrylonitrile in the rat

Archives of Toxicology

Volumn 78, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 301-305

  Shibata, Miyako ^a   Inoue, Kouichi ^a   Yoshimura, Yoshihiro ^a   Nakazawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Seto, Yasuo ^b  

^a HOSHI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF POLICE SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Cyanide; Headspace gas chromatography; In vivo metabolism; Nitrile

Indexed keywords

ACRYLONITRILE; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; NITRILE; PROPIONITRILE; THIOCYANATE; VOLATILE AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD; BLOOD SAMPLING; COLORIMETRY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; INCUBATION TIME; INTOXICATION; LD 50; MALE; MEASUREMENT; METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TEMPERATURE; URINALYSIS;

ACETONITRILES; ACRYLONITRILE; ADMINISTRATION, ORAL; ANIMALS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; COLORIMETRY; HYDROGEN CYANIDE; MALE; NITRILES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; THIOCYANATES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3142697866     PISSN: 03405761     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00204-004-0545-4     Document Type: Article

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