Morphological Changes in Human Head Hair Subjected to Various Drug Testing Decontamination Strategies

    February 2007 in “ Forensic science international ”
    Peter Stout, JD Ropero-Miller, Michael Baylor, John M. Mitchell
    Studysummary This study found that different decontamination protocols caused varying levels of cuticle damage in hair, with aqueous buffer treatment resulting in the most substantial degradation.
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