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Diphenidine and its metabolites in blood and urine analyzed by MALDI-Q-TOF mass spectrometry

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This work was supported by a Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Number 2560867) from the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports, and Culture of Japan.

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  1. Department of Legal Medicine, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Higashi-ku, Hamamatsu, 31-3192, Japan

    Kayoko Minakata, Itaru Yamagishi, Hideki Nozawa, Koutaro Hasegawa, Amin Wurita, Kunio Gonmori, Kanako Watanabe & Osamu Suzuki

  2. Research Equipment Center, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, Hamamatsu, Japan

    Masako Suzuki

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Minakata, K., Yamagishi, I., Nozawa, H. et al. Diphenidine and its metabolites in blood and urine analyzed by MALDI-Q-TOF mass spectrometry. Forensic Toxicol 33, 402–408 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11419-015-0273-x

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