title: A newly designed apparatus for testing blood levels of fuel vapor.
abstract: An apparatus for exposure of laboratory animals to fuel vapor was designed, manufactured and set up for routine experiments. Gasoline was vaporized by warming and was introduced into a series of chambers in which the concentration was regulated and stabilized, using air pumps. Concentration of the vapor in a chamber was controlled and experiments on rats showed a positive correlation between blood levels and vapor concentration at the time of exposure. A case of suicide by gasoline poisoning was briefly described.
authors: Department of Legal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Kimura
authors: K
authors: K
authors: Hara
authors: T
authors: T
authors: Nagata
mesh_terms: D000280:Administration, Inhalation; D000818:Animals; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D008401:Gas Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry; D005742:Gasoline / Q000032:analysis* / Q000633:toxicity; D006801:Humans; D006838:Hydrocarbons / Q000493:pharmacokinetics; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010578:Petroleum / Q000032:analysis*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D001335:Vehicle Emissions / Q000506:poisoning
chemical_list: D005742:Gasoline; D006838:Hydrocarbons; D010578:Petroleum; D001335:Vehicle Emissions