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UGR researchers design an alternative to blood test to detect drugs in the body
06-21-2007 · EurekAlert!The department of Legal Medicine and Psychiatry has developed a new technique based on the analysis of pericardial fluid, a plasma ultrafiltered which surrounds the heart. Their work has determined for the first time that this fluid, easier to test than blood, presents a narcotic concentration similar to blood.
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