Purpose The use of alternative matrices in toxicological analyses has been on the rise in
clinical and forensic settings. Specimens alternative to blood and urine are useful in …

Excessive drinking and drunkenness are underlying factors in many fatal accidents, which
make the quantitative determination of ethanol in postmortem (PM) specimens an essential …

Narcotic and psychotropic substances are natural, synthetic, or semisynthetic compounds
that are present in both solid and liquid illicit products. The alterations effects on the central …

This study presents the design and computational simulation of a graphene-based sensor
optimized for bio-alcohol detection within the terahertz frequency range. The sensor …

Nowadays it is increasingly important from a pharmacological, toxicological, and clinical
point of view to have rapid and reliable screening tests available for the analysis of …

One of the most discussed topics concerns the sample preparation before the analysis and,
therefore, all the operations necessary to eliminate the interferents, clean up the specimens …

The treatment of biological samples, especially from complex matrices, has consistently
challenged analytical operators. The classic problems to be faced for any analysis …

Medico-legal case reports very rarely describe sodium nitrite poisonings, but when they do
most often they describe fatal suicide attempts. The case report presents a suicidal attempt …

Background: Alcohol abuse is one of the most common causes of mortality worldwide. This
study aimed to investigate the efficacy of a treatment in reducing circulating ethanol and …

Auto-brewery syndrome (ABS), also called gut fermentation syndrome, is an extremely
infrequent but also underrecognized disorder where ethanol is produced endogenously …