Stability of ethyl glucuronide in urine, post-mortem tissue and blood samples

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 120, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 83-88

  Schloegl, Haiko ^a   Dresen, Sebastian ^a   Spaczynski, Karin ^a   Stoertzel, Mylène ^a   Wurst, Friedrich Martin ^b   Weinmann, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Alcohol consumption marker; Ethyl glucuronide; Post mortem analysis; Stability; Urine

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; ETHYL GLUCURONIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AIR; AIR CONDITIONING; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ALCOHOL BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLEEDING; BLOOD SAMPLING; BONE TISSUE; CONGENITAL HEART MALFORMATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEGRADATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KNIFE CUT; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; LIVER; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MEDICAL EXAMINATION; MOLECULAR STABILITY; MUSCLE TISSUE; NEWBORN; OBSERVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROOM TEMPERATURE; STORAGE; TUBE; URINE;

ADULT; ALCOHOL DRINKING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM DEPRESSANTS; DRUG STABILITY; ETHANOL; FEMALE; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GLUCURONATES; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; LIVER; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SPECIMEN HANDLING;

EID: 32944456772     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-005-0012-7     Document Type: Article

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