Determination of endogenous gamma-hydroxybutyric acid (GHB) levels in antemortem urine and blood.

abstract：:A 76-year-old male with a previous history of heart arrhythmia and decompensation was treated for a complicated thoraco-abdominal trauma. Accidentally, a pleural drain was inserted in his heart through the ventricular septum, perforating the left ventricle, the drain tip being buried in its posterior wall. This injury...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Rajs J,Rotmil PL

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Depression and other psychiatric illnesses are common during pregnancy and are often treated with antidepressants. Physiological changes of pregnancy may alter the pharmacokinetics of medications and ultimately affect the dose required to maintain effective therapy. Human hair offers a safe, non-invasive way...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： O'Brien L,Baumer C,Thieme D,Sachs H,Koren G

更新日期：2010-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Ten X-chromosomal STRs from two multiplex PCR approaches (DXS9898, DXS6807, HPRTB, DXS101, and androgen receptor (ARA); DXS7133, DXS10011, DXS7424, DXS8377, and DXS8378) have been typed in a Latvian population sample. ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Poetsch M,Sabule A,Petersmann H,Volksone V,Lignitz E

更新日期：2006-03-10 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：:1,4-Dihydropyridines calcium channel antagonists (1,4-DHP CCAs) are photolabile and the products of their photodecomposition have no pharmaceutical activity. In our previous work we have presented a screening procedure for eleven 1,4-DHPs in plasma by LC-MS-MS using multiple reaction motoring. The laboratory process i...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Baranda AB,Alonso RM,Jiménez RM,Weinmann W

更新日期：2006-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Population study was carried out on the sample of 167 unrelated donors from the wider area of the Croatia's capital, Zagreb, using the short tandem reapet (STR) loci: TH01, VWFA31, FES/FPS, F13A01, D1S1656, D12S391, D18S535 and D22S683. ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Grubić Z,Stingl K,Kastelan A

更新日期：2002-06-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The instant detection of explosives and explosive-related compounds has become an urgent priority in recent years for homeland security and counter-terrorism applications. Modern techniques should offer enhancement in selectivity, sensitivity, and standoff distances. Miniaturisation, portability, and field-ruggedisati...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Elbasuney S,El-Sherif AF

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Petechial thymus hemorrhages are found most frequently in SIDS (87%), and very much more rarely in fetuses after abortion and stillbirths (55%) as well as in perinatal deaths (40%). In these groups, there was a uniform histological bleeding pattern with emphasis on the cortical zone. In non-SIDS deaths of natural caus...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Risse M,Weiler G

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of population subdivision on the determination of kinship of any two persons is investigated in this paper. Expressions of the joint genotype probabilities and likelihood ratios on kinship testing are reported. Two real cases are analysed using the Hong Kong Chinese population data and the Spanish data. Var...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Fung WK,Carracedo A,Hu YQ

更新日期：2003-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Medicolegal malpractice assessments have been an important part of the work of forensic pathologists. Not only botchers are concerned but also physicians of all clinical subjects, especially malpractice charges claiming a malpractice leading to death. Single long articles and book chapters have been published about ma...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Dettmeyer R,Preuss J,Madea B

更新日期：2004-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of four target organic explosives [pentaerythritol tetranitrate (PETN), 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT), hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (RDX) and triacetone triperoxide (TATP)] and two inorganic anions (chlorate and nitrate) on polyester-based alcohol wipes and in 60% (v/v) methanol/water extracts, ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Song-im N,Benson S,Lennard C

更新日期：2013-03-10 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 a study of the incidence of suicide in jails and prisons under increasing conditions of deprivation in Italy from 2004 to 2008, imprisonment involving greater levels of isolation was found to be associated with a higher rate of suicide. Greater care should be taken to ensure that prisoners in isolation do not commi...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Roma P,Pompili M,Lester D,Girardi P,Ferracuti S

更新日期：2013-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Four fatalities related to smuggling of drugs by body-packing were investigated. The victims were examined at the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Hamburg University between 1983 and 1995, two of them due to "sudden" unknown cause of death. All victims were male. Two of them were found already dead in a backyard and ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Heinemann A,Miyaishi S,Iwersen S,Schmoldt A,Püschel K

更新日期：1998-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Foreign body aspiration is frequently encountered in young children, in the majority of cases it will not lead to an adverse outcome. However, in case of coin battery ingestion more serious adverse outcomes, including death, have been reported. We present a case with fatal outcome due to exsanguination, of a 2-year-ol...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Soerdjbalie-Maikoe V,van Rijn RR

更新日期：2010-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In rabbits, intracerebrally applied erythrocytes can move with the cerebrospinal fluid along connecting pathways between the subarachnoid space and the cervical lymph nodes. This study compares the time dependency for the degradation of intracerebrally injected erythrocytes in the brain as well as in the cervical lymp...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Oehmichen M,Wiethölter H,Grüninger H,Gencic M

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Buprenorphine, commonly known by the trademark Temgesic, is one of the most popular drugs of abuse among the opioid-addicted young individuals in Iran. Temgesic, Bungesic, etc. are the most popular and important illicit opioid drugs in Tehran's illicit drugs black market, and are now among the most widely abused by op...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Soltaninejad K,Faryadi M,Akhgari M,Bahmanabadi L

更新日期：2007-10-25 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：:The AMPFlSTR((R)) SGM Plus system is a commercially available STR multiplex produced by Applied Biosystems, a division of Perkin Elmer, Foster City, California, USA that supersedes SGM. The multiplex contains the six SGM loci, amelogenin and four additional loci. These additional loci are D3S1358, D19S433, D16S539 and...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Cotton EA,Allsop RF,Guest JL,Frazier RR,Koumi P,Callow IP,Seager A,Sparkes RL

更新日期：2000-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:We report an alleged case of sexual assault in which an anti-wrinkle cream could have been used as a lubricant. Three anorectal samples taken from the victim were given to us in an attempt to document the presence of remains of the cream involved. After examining the composition of the cream, octocrylene (OCT) was sel...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Jamey C,Tracqui A,Ludes B

更新日期：2012-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Reports in the literature suggest that diagnostic differences in craniofacial morphology between blacks and whites arise very early in development. These reports, however, have not been consistent regarding which traits are diagnostic and have failed to provide forensic anthropologists with a reliable method of assess...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Weinberg SM,Putz DA,Mooney MP,Siegel MI

更新日期：2005-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Dioxins and related compounds (furans) are persistent environmental contaminants that cause adverse biological effects. Their influence on humans is still unclear, except for accidental high-dose exposure. Chronic exposure to these compounds seems to be involved in cancer, endocrine disruption and neurobehavioral effe...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Cirimele V,Villain M,Salquèbre G,Staub C,Kintz P

更新日期：2008-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Amphetamine-type substances (ATS), like other synthetically derived compounds, can be produced by a multitude of synthetic pathways using a variety of precursors and reagents, resulting in a large number of possible contaminants (by-products, intermediates and impurities). This review article describes the common cont...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Stojanovska N,Fu S,Tahtouh M,Kelly T,Beavis A,Kirkbride KP

更新日期：2013-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Forensic personnel may face a daunting task when searching for buried weapons at crime scenes or potential disposal sites. In particular, it is common to search for a small firearm that was discarded or buried by a perpetrator. When performing forensic searches, it is recommended to first use non-invasive methods such...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Dionne CA,Schultz JJ,Murdock RA 2nd,Smith SA

更新日期：2011-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:(1) The polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used to amplify Rh-related cDNAs from erythroid cells cultured by the selective two-phase liquid culture system for human erythroid progenitors in peripheral blood. Two Rh polypeptide cDNAs have been isolated from the PCR products and tentatively designated RhPI cDNA and RhP...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Ikemoto S,Iwamoto S,Tsuchida S,Goto K,Oyamada T,Kajii E

更新日期：1996-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:This study determines the development rates of the immature stages of the fly Ophyra albuquerquei Lopes, 1985. In this study, with 70% relative humidity and a 12-h photophase, eggs, larvae, and pupae were kept in a biochemical oxygen demand chamber at temperatures of 10, 15, 17, 20, 22, 25, 27, 30, 33, 35, and 40°C. W...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Duarte JL,Emmerich RF,Corrêa AP,Krüger RF

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An examination of the organ weights associated with victims of drowning, asphyxiation and trauma was undertaken to determine (a) the effects of asphyxiation compared to a trauma group, and in turn, (b) the effects of drowning compared to an asphyxiation group. Included in the study were 217 drowning deaths, 166 pure a...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Hadley JA,Fowler DR

更新日期：2003-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Photoluminescence spectra of dry untreated semen have been measured and a suggested method for rapid detection of untreated semen stains is derived from these measurements. The method is presented in the form of a flow chart to cover most crime scene situations. The absorption spectrum of dry untreated blood has also ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Stoilovic M

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Air bags have been implicated in saving lives and reducing morbidity associated with motor vehicle crashes since their introduction in the mid-1970s. However, there is increasing evidence showing that air bags can be a source of injury and even death in certain circumstances. As the number of air bag-equipped vehicles...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Sato Y,Ohshima T,Kondo T

更新日期：2002-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The 4977-bp deletion in human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) is known to accumulate in various tissues with age. Since this deletion in mtDNA correlates closest with age in muscle tissue, iliopsoas muscle tissue was taken at autopsy from 50 persons aged 24-97 years to determine whether age at death can be estimated based o...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Meissner C,von Wurmb N,Schimansky B,Oehmichen M

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00