Drugs and Poisons in Humans
Overview
- Authors:
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Osamu Suzuki
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Department of Legal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu City, Japan
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Kanako Watanabe
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Department of Legal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu City, Japan
Unique analysis of drugs and poisons to facilitate testing in all laboratories even by inexperienced chemists
Includes source of chemicals needed for the experiments
Texts are composed by 67 experts in analyzing the respective compounds
Clear and uniform structure of chapters for ease of reading
The text is illustrated by many diagrams and tables
Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
About this book
It was with great pleasure that I accepted the invitation to write the foreword for Drugs and Poisons in Humans. A Handbook of Practical Analysis. Dr. Osamu Suzuki and Dr. Mikio Yashiki, two outstanding Japanese scientists, f rst published the Handbook in Japanese in 2002. Specialists throughout Japan contributed analytical methods for a wide variety of therapeutic and illicit drugs, pesticides, and natural toxins and alkaloids. In fact, rarely has such a wide spectrum of analytes and metabolites been addressed within a single reference manual. At the beginning of the book, general topics are addressed, including instructions on h- dling biological materials, measurement of drugs in alternative specimens, and guidance on resolving analytical problems that may occur. T ere are discussions of extraction modalities and detection methodologies and how to select these appropriately based on the physioche- cal characteristics of the drug. Analysis of specif c classes of drugs and relevant metabolites are covered in subsequent chapters. Clinical, analytical and forensic toxicology and clinical ch- istry laboratories will f nd the volume informative and useful. Toxicologists are of en faced with developing methods for new drugs and metabolites with little information available in the literature. T is book provides a great starting point for method development providing pro- dures that have been utilized in real life situations. In addition, toxicologists developing new methodologies may use this volume as a guide to selecting the most appropriate instrumen- tion to handle the breadth of their analytical workload.
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Table of contents (72 chapters)
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Chapters on specific toxins
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- Yasushi Hori, Manami Fujisawa
Pages 545-557
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- Akira Ishii, Yoshinao Katsumata
Pages 591-598
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- Hiroaki Ando, Yoshihiko Miyata
Pages 609-618
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- Munehiro Katagi, Hitoshi Tsuchihashi
Pages 619-627
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- Hitoshi Tsuchihashi, Akihiro Miki
Pages 629-636
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- Sinichi Suzuki, Yasuhiro Suzuki
Pages 637-647
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- Takeshi Saito, Sanae Takeichi
Pages 649-654
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Back Matter
Pages 659-672