Postmortem changes in tissue concentrations of triazolam and diazepam in rats

Legal Medicine

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 224-232

  Shiota, Hideo ^a,b   Nakashima, Mikiro ^c   Terazono, Hideyuki ^c   Sasaki, Hitoshi ^c   Nishida, Koyo ^a   Nakamura, Junzo ^a   Taniyama, Kotaro ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Forensic Science Laboratory   (Japan)

^c NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Diazepam; Diffusion; Forensic toxicology; Postmortem change; Triazolam

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; ESTAZOLAM; TRIAZOLAM;

ABDOMEN; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD SAMPLING; CADAVER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORONARY ARTERY BLOOD FLOW; DIFFUSION; DRUG TISSUE LEVEL; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GASTROINTESTINAL TRACT; HISTOCHEMISTRY; ION MONITORING; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MASS SPECTROMETRY; MUSCLE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SMALL INTESTINE; STOMACH CONTENT; THIGH;

ANIMALS; ANTI-ANXIETY AGENTS; DIAZEPAM; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; GASTROINTESTINAL CONTENTS; INTESTINE, SMALL; KIDNEY; LIVER; LUNG; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MYOCARDIUM; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRIAZOLAM;

EID: 4444246656     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2004.05.006     Document Type: Article

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