Leave Methamphetamine to be alive - Part II

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Islam, Mohammed Nasimul ^a   Khan, Jesmine ^a   Jaafar, Hasnan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MARA   (Malaysia)

^b SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Drug abuse; Methamphetamine; Withdrawal

Indexed keywords

METHAMPHETAMINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARDIOTOXICITY; CELL INFILTRATION; CELL NUCLEUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOPLASM; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOCARDIUM; FIBROBLAST; HEART MUSCLE; LEUKOCYTE; MACROPHAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SPINDLE CELL; TISSUE STRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEUS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; HEART; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MACROPHAGES; MALE; METHAMPHETAMINE; MICROSCOPY; MYOCARDIUM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 67349144721     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.02.045     Document Type: Article

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