Masato Funayama

Professor
Department of Forensic Medicine
Tohoku University
Japan

Professor Toxicology
Biography

Dr. Masato Funayama , is a Professor of Forensic Medicine, at Tohoku University School of medicine. He is M.D. and Ph.D. His research themes are Time of death, Rapid drug extraction and analysis, Human identification using CT images. Research Keywords for him are forensic pathology, forensic toxicology, forensic radiology.

Research Intrest

thermo data logger, liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry, computed tomography

List of Publications
Nunoya, K., Yokoi, Y., Kimura, K., Kodama, T., Funayama, M., Inoue, K., ... & Kamataki, T. (1996). (+)-cis-3, 5-dimethyl-2-(3-pyridyl) thiazolidin-4-one hydrochloride (SM-12502) as a novel substrate for cytochrome P450 2A6 in human liver microsomes. Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, 277(2), 768-774.
Ito, K., Tanaka, S., Funayama, M., & Mizugaki, M. (2000). Distribution of Aconitum alkaloids in body fluids and tissues in a suicidal case of aconite ingestion. Journal of analytical toxicology, 24(5), 348-353.
Funayama, M., Kumagai, T., Saito, K., & Watanabe, T. (1994). Asphyxial death caused by postextraction hematoma. The American journal of forensic medicine and pathology, 15(1), 87-90.
Hata, N., Kominato, Y., Shimada, I., Takizawa, H., Fujikura, T., Morita, M., ... & Misawa, S. (2001). Regional differences in homicide patterns in five areas of Japan. Legal Medicine, 3(1), 44-55.
Funayama, M., Aoki, Y., Sebetan, I. M., & Sagisaka, K. (1987). Detection of diatoms in blood by a combination of membrane filtering and chemical digestion. Forensic science international, 34(3), 175-182.
Kanetake, J., Kanawaku, Y., Mimasaka, S., Sakai, J., Hashiyada, M., Nata, M., & Funayama, M. (2005). The relationship of a high level of serum beta-hydroxybutyrate to cause of death. Legal Medicine, 7(3), 169-174.