Nails in Forensic Toxicology: An Update

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Abstract

The analysis of nails as a keratinized matrix to detect drugs or illicit substances has been increasingly used in forensic and clinical toxicology as a complementary test, especially for the specific characteristics of stably accumulating substances for long periods of time. This allows a retrospective investigation of chronic drug abuse, monitoring continuous drug or pharmaceutical use, reveal in utero drug exposure or environmental exposures.

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Title: Current Pharmaceutical Design

Abbreviated Title: CPD

Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers Ltd.

ISSN (Print): 13816128

Publication date Created: January 30 2018

Publication date (Print): January 30 2018

Volume: 23

Issue: 36

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[1 ]National Centre on Drug Addiction and Doping, Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy

[2 ]Unit of Forensic Toxicology (UoFT), Department of Anatomical, Histological, Forensic and Orthopedic Sciences, Sapienza University of Rome, Rome, Italy

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DOI: 10.2174/1381612823666170704123126

PubMed ID: 28677498

SO-VID: 45b44083-2e17-47c8-83ef-fd8ca3f2322f

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