Temporal profiling of human urine VOCs and its potential role under the ruins of collapsed buildings

Toxicology Mechanisms and Methods

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 502-511

  Mochalski, Pawel ^a,c   Krapf, Karin ^a,b,d   Ager, Clemens ^a,b   Wiesenhofer, Helmut ^a,b   Agapiou, Agapios ^e   Statheropoulos, Milt ^e   Fuchs, Dietmar ^b   Ellmerer, Ernst ^d   Buszewski, Boguslaw ^a,f   Amann, Anton ^a,b  

^a ERICH SCHMID INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS SCIENCE   (Austria)

^b INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^c INSTITUTE OF NUCLEAR PHYSICS   (Poland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^e NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^f NICOLAUS COPERNICUS UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Entrapped victims; Potential markers of human presence; Rescue operations; Volatile organic compounds (VOCs)

Indexed keywords

3 HEXANONE; 3 METHYLBUTAN 2 ONE; 4 METHYL 2 PENTANONE; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DIMETHYL DISULFIDE; DIMETHYL SULFONE; DIMETHYLTRISULFIDE; OCTANAL; PROPIONALDEHYDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUND;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BUILDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISASTER; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MASS FRAGMENTOGRAPHY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESCUE WORK; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; STORAGE; URINALYSIS; URINE; URINE ODOR; VICTIM;

ADULT; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; COHORT STUDIES; DISASTERS; FEMALE; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY-MASS SPECTROMETRY; HUMANS; LIMIT OF DETECTION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; ODORS; RESCUE WORK; SOLID PHASE MICROEXTRACTION; SPECIMEN HANDLING; STRUCTURE COLLAPSE; URINE; VOLATILE ORGANIC COMPOUNDS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84865312111     PISSN: 15376516     EISSN: 15376524     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/15376516.2012.682664     Document Type: Article

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