Simultaneous determination of pancuronium, vecuronium and their related compounds using LC-ESI-MS

Legal Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 166-171

  Usui, Kiyotaka ^a,b   Hishinuma, Takanori ^a,c   Yamaguchi, Hiroaki ^a,c   Saga, Toshihide ^a   Wagatsuma, Toshihiro ^d   Hoshi, Kunihiko ^a   Tachiiri, Naoki ^b   Miura, Kuniaki ^b   Goto, Junichi ^a,c  

^a TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Tohoku University Hospital ^*

^c TOHOKU UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^d TOHOKU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Determination; Forensic analysis; LC ESI MS; Pancuronium; Toxicology; Vecuronium

Indexed keywords

17 MONODESACETYL PANCRONIUM; 3 MONODESACETYL VECURONIUM; 3,17 BISDESACETYL PANCURONIUM; 3,17 BISDESACETYL VECURONIUM; MUSCLE RELAXANT AGENT; PANCURONIUM; STEROID; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VECURONIUM;

ARTICLE; ASSAY; CASE REPORT; DRUG STRUCTURE; ELECTROSPRAY MASS SPECTROMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; STEROID BLOOD LEVEL;

CHROMATOGRAPHY, LIQUID; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; NEUROMUSCULAR NONDEPOLARIZING AGENTS; PANCURONIUM; SPECTROMETRY, MASS, ELECTROSPRAY IONIZATION; VECURONIUM BROMIDE;

EID: 33646776079     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2006.02.001     Document Type: Article

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