Temperature-correction of abdominal impedance: improved relationship between impedance and postmortem interval.

abstract：:A series of validation experiments was performed for a Y chromosome specific STR multiplex system following the suggestions made by the Technical Working Group DNA Analysis Methods (TWGDAM). The multiplex PCR products were detected on Perkin-Elmer 373 and 377 automated sequencers using two labeling colors. No problems...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Prinz M,Ishii A,Coleman A,Baum HJ,Shaler RC

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymic involution has been reported to be an important parameter of the degree and duration of child abuse. In the present study, we assessed the status of tyrosine phosphorylation signaling, which is known to play a key role in the physiological function of the thymus, in involuted thymuses of abused children through...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Nishio H,Matsui K,Tsuji H,Tamura A,Suzuki K

更新日期：2000-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:A very serious case of DFSA (drug facilitated sexual assault) is presented, in which a six-year-old girl died following sedation with γ-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB). She had been sexually abused by a relative. Samples of cardiac blood, bile, vitreous humour, liver, kidney, brain tissues and hair were analysed by a LC-MS/...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Mehling LM,Johansen SS,Wang X,Doberentz E,Madea B,Hess C

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to investigate all child homicides for the 25-year period, 1970-1994 in Finland and to analyse the specific characteristics of the filicide cases. A total of 292 child homicides occurred during this period. In 201 (69%) cases the offender was a parent or a stepparent of the child. Altoget...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Vanamo T,Kauppi A,Karkola K,Merikanto J,Räsänen E

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 23-year-old man was found on a raised hide in lying position, the head wrapped in a plastic bag connected with a helium gas cylinder by a polypropylene tube. The autopsy did not show any specific findings nor did the routine toxicological analysis reveal significant information regarding the cause of death (BAC 0.9 ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Auwaerter V,Perdekamp MG,Kempf J,Schmidt U,Weinmann W,Pollak S

更新日期：2007-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein-based medicines, or large molecule medicines, are innovative products used to treat various diseases like hepatitis or cancer. This new generation of molecules are usually expensive, and thus represents an attractive target for the counterfeiters. Due to the complexity of their chemical structure, their analys...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Dégardin K,Desponds A,Roggo Y

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Haplotypes and allele frequencies for 12 Y-STR loci were determined in Sichuan Han ethnic population samples of 237 unrelated males living in west China. Only one haplotype was encountered in triple. Twelve of the haplotypes were encountered in duplicate, while 210 haplotypes were unique. The gene diversity was 0.9952...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Zhang H,Yun L,Li Y,Zhang J,Wu J,Yan J,Hou Y

更新日期：2008-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on molecularly imprinted photonic hydrogels (MIPHs) that combined the colloidal-crystal with molecular imprinting technique, a novel label-free colorimetric chemosensor for convenient and fast efficient detection of atropine with high sensitivity and specificity was developed. Due to the special inverse opal arr...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Meng L,Meng P,Tang B,Zhang Q,Wang Y

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The 3,4-methylenedioxy ring-substituted amphetamines, including "ADAM' and "EVE', are currently popular drugs of abuse. Adverse reactions are reported in the clinical literature but few fatal cases are documented and little toxicological data is available to guide those determining the cause or manner of death in such...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Cox DE,Williams KR

更新日期：1996-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments in the month of September 2005 were performed to study nocturnal larviposition by the flesh flies (Diptera: Sarcophagidae). Two species namely Sarcophaga albiceps Meigen and Sarcophaga hirtipes Wiedemann were observed to deposit their larvae during night time as well. Therefore, possibility of night larvip...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Singh D,Bharti M

更新日期：2008-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Morphometric cranial variation among Spanish samples was compared to a 19th century Portuguese sample using both traditional and three-dimensional approaches. The Spanish samples included the regional 19th century Oloriz collection and the local 16-17th century Villanubla and Vallolid sample from northwestern Spain. R...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Ross AH,Ubelaker DH,Kimmerle EH

更新日期：2011-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:When inspecting the scene the circumstances under which a body is found and the findings on the body surface may give first clues to premortal drug abuse. Besides fresh and/or old injection marks tattoos, underweight and signs of physical neglect, especially after long-term abuse, are mentioned in literature. The inci...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Bohnert M,Hafezi M,Pollak S

更新日期：2001-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last two years, an epidemic of fatal narcotic overdose cases has occurred in the Tampa area of Florida. Fourteen of these deaths involved fentanyl and/or the new designer drug, acetyl fentanyl. Victim demographics, case histories, toxicology findings and causes and manners of death, as well as, disposition of f...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Poklis J,Poklis A,Wolf C,Mainland M,Hair L,Devers K,Chrostowski L,Arbefeville E,Merves M,Pearson J

更新日期：2015-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we report the chemical analyses of various non-pathological, tuberculosis and syphilis infected bone samples from different burial environments by Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), in the framework of a general study of diagenesis. Dating human skeletal remains is one of the most importan...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Nagy G,Lorand T,Patonai Z,Montsko G,Bajnoczky I,Marcsik A,Mark L

更新日期：2008-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant tissue samples may sometimes be the only source of biological material for forensic investigations, including identification of individuals or paternity testing. However, in use of such samples, uncertainties due to microsatellite instability (MSI) and loss of heterozygosity (LOH) often associated with neopl...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Vauhkonen H,Hedman M,Vauhkonen M,Kataja M,Sipponen P,Sajantila A

更新日期：2004-01-28 00:00:00

abstract：:A case of ruptured septic myocardial infarct with death from cardiac tamponade in an intravenous drug addict with left-sided infective endocarditis and septic coronary artery embolism is described. To the best of our knowledge, there is no previous report of such a case in the literature. Although uncommon, infective ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Dickens P,Ho J,Wong KY

更新日期：1995-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous research has raised the possibility that automotive brake pads can produce particles that are both compositionally and morphologically similar to gunshot residue (GSR). These studies, published in the early 2000s, coincided with the reduction or removal of unnecessary sources of lead from the automotive indus...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Tucker W,Lucas N,Seyfang KE,Kirkbride KP,Popelka-Filcoff RS

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is considerable value in developing tools capable of accurately and reliably determining when bruises were inflicted in humans. Previous work has focused on the visual changes observed in a bruise as the injury develops and heals. However, due to variables such as how and where on the body the bruise was inflict...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Lecomte MM,Holmes T,Kay DP,Simons JL,Vintiner SK

更新日期：2013-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Forensic science is increasingly relied on by police and the courts to exonerate the innocent and to establish links to crime. With this increased reliance the potential for unjust outcomes increases, especially in serious matters for two reasons. The more serious the matter, the more likely that evidence mishandling ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kelty SF,Julian R,Ross A

更新日期：2013-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:One hundred and seventy-six plants of 22 different lots of Cannabis sativa L., grown at the Botanical Garden of Siena (Italy) were chromatographically analysed in order to define the cannabinoid content in their leaves. The content of the major cannabinoids, delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol, cannabidiol, cannabinol and ca...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Barni-Comparini I,Ferri S,Centini F

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Illicit cocaine samples (156), seized on Rome's illegal market between January 1996 and June 1997, were examined. Both the purity of the cocaine and the presence of substances employed for dilution were determined for each sample. Adulterants were found in many of the street samples analysed. Lidocaine (average 14.7%)...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Fucci N,De Giovanni N

更新日期：1998-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification and the quantitative estimation of cannabis constituents is important for forensic purposes. High resolution gas-chromatography gives better results than gas-liquid chromatography with packed columns, as it shows a better resolution and higher number of constituents. Different quantitative values we...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Barni Comparini I,Centini F

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present investigation, which is a continuation and extension of a previous published pilot study [Forensic Sci. Int. 129 (2002) 110], was to calculate the chronological age of an individual based on the dental developmental stages of third molars (so-called wisdom teeth). The evaluated material consiste...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Gunst K,Mesotten K,Carbonez A,Willems G

更新日期：2003-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Since 1970, traumatomechanics has been a focal point in research at the Institute for Legal Medicine and Traffic Medicine in Heidelberg. Here, the main topics are the understanding of the interrelation between mechanical strain and the resulting degree of injury; at the forefront of all interest is the determination o...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Mattern R,Schueler F,Kallieris D

更新日期：2004-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:For almost three decades, the Association for the Recovery of the Fallen in Eastern Europe (Verein zur Bergung Gefallener in Osteuropa e.V., VBGO) has committed itself to the location, recovery, documentation, and identification of the missing victims of World War II. Through the tireless efforts of the VBGO volunteer...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Indra L,Straub K,Schulz W,Balsam R,Ockert W,Nowack S,Laue A

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Besides alcohol and drugs of abuse, several popular foods contain potentially toxic substances and cases of intoxication after consumption of these foods attract notice of forensic toxicology. This is also true for the case of a 34-year-old woman who was suspected to have suffered lethal acute intoxication from eating...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Albermann ME,Musshoff F,Hagemeier L,Madea B

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decades, the importance of technical and scientific evidence for the criminal justice system has been steadily increasing. Unfortunately, the weight of forensic evidence is not always easy for the trier of fact to assess, as appears from a brief discussion of some recent cases in which the weight of expe...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Broeders AP

更新日期：2006-06-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The response to wounds until healing requires the activity of many cell types coordinate in space and time, so that the types of cells in a wound and their localization may be of help to date lesions with respect to death, which would be useful in forensic pathology. Cells reacting to injury include dendritic cells; t...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Bacci S,Defraia B,Cinci L,Calosi L,Guasti D,Pieri L,Lotti V,Bonelli A,Romagnoli P

更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most cases involving entomological evidence occur in urban environments and under indoor conditions, there is a lack of studies determining the insect fauna of forensic importance in those environments. In the current paper we provide the first data on the composition of the forensically important insect spec...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Baz A,Botías C,Martín-Vega D,Cifrián B,Díaz-Aranda LM

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The causes of sudden cardiac death are diverse and are function of age. In young people, coronary anomalies, hypertrophic cardiomyopathy are the most common findings at autopsies; in adults, coronary atherosclerosis and acquired forms of cardiomyopathy are frequent findings. In many of non-ischemia related cases autop...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Martínez-Sánchez MC,Rodríguez-Vicente C

更新日期：2004-12-02 00:00:00