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... the phenomenon by which drugs and chemicals move from one site to another in the body after death.  1, fiche 1, Anglais, - postmortem%20redistribution

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In life, active mechanisms serve to concentrate some drugs in certain organs or tissues. After death, passive diffusion occurs as cell membranes break down and this will mean that post-mortem blood samples will, for some drugs, show higher concentations than were seen during life. (This is know as post-mortem redistribution (PMR) and has been described as a 'toxicological nightmare' because of the number of different processes involved.)  2, fiche 1, Anglais, - postmortem%20redistribution

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