Assessment of the stability of mephedrone in ante-mortem and post-mortem blood specimens.

abstract：:The aim of the study was to improve the objectivity of X-ray image comparison for the identification of unknown dead individuals. CT-data were collected for 30 macerated skulls. An already presented computer program which uses CT data to establish virtual X-ray images was used to obtain X-rays with different beam angu...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Riepert T,Ulmcke D,Schweden F,Nafe B

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of the 110 species of genus Papaver, only Papaver somniferum and P. setigerum are controlled poppies in Korea. All poppy samples share similar morphology therefore it is important to check if they contain controlled substances such as morphine and codeine for forensic purpose. Since the alkaloid content of Papaver pla...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Choe S,Lee E,Jin GN,Lee YH,Kim SY,Choi H,Chung H,Hwang BY,Kim S

更新日期：2012-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:This article describes the first use of an anti-Stokes material, or up-converter, for the development of latent fingermarks on a range of non-porous surfaces. Anti-Stokes materials can absorb long-wavelength light and emit light at a shorter wavelength. This property is unusual in both natural and artificial materials...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Ma R,Bullock E,Maynard P,Reedy B,Shimmon R,Lennard C,Roux C,McDonagh A

更新日期：2011-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study is designed to evaluate the correlation between fatal vehicle crashes (FVC) and consumption of alcohol and/or drugs among drivers. Between 1996 and 2000 in Hong Kong, a total of 197 FVC cases of deceased drivers were investigated. The blood and/or urine samples of the victims were examined for the presence ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Cheng JY,Chan DT,Mok VK

更新日期：2005-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Obtaining a genetic profile from pieces of evidence collected at a crime scene is the primary objective of forensic laboratories. New procedures, methods, kits, software or equipment must be carefully evaluated and validated before its implementation. The constant development of new methodologies for DNA testing leads...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Martins C,Ferreira PM,Carvalho R,Costa SC,Farinha C,Azevedo L,Amorim A,Oliveira M

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A urine screening in fatalities with an unnatural or unknown cause of death (13-40 years of age) was carried out to evaluate the proportion of undetected drug-related cases. Ten out of 160 fatalities without a hint of drug consumption were classified as drug-related according to the definition of the Bundeskriminalamt...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Schulz-Schaeffer W,Elwers W,Schmoldt A

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the case of suicidal drowning forensic examination is difficult, particularly with regard to differentiating between suicide, accident, homicide and natural death. Bondage and weighting with objects, putrescence and attendant lesions aggravate interpretation and investigation of postmortal forensic findings. In thi...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Todt M,Ast F,Wolff-Maras R,Roesler B,Germerott T

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 27,000 infants studied prospectively to characterize their sleep-wake behavior, 38 infants died suddenly and unexpectedly under 6 months of age. Of these, 26 died from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), 5 from congenital cardiac abnormalities, 2 from infected pulmonary dysplasia, 2 from septic shock with multi...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Sawaguchi T,Franco P,Kato I,Shimizu S,Kadhim H,Groswasser J,Sottiaux M,Togari H,Kobayashi M,Nishida H,Sawaguchi A,Kahn A

更新日期：2002-09-14 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：:Current research literature contains very few international, cross-cultural comparison studies of persons adjudicated 'Not Criminally Responsible on Account of Mental Disorder' (NCRMD). This study explores and compares the demographic differences between persons found NCRMD in British Columbia, Canada and Hunan, China...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Wang X,Livingston JD,Brink J,Murphy E

更新日期：2006-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work we show a forensic case study carried out in a mountainous environment. Main objective was to locate a clandestine grave which is around 10-20 years old and contains human remains of one individual and a metallic tool, probably a pick. Survey design started with an experimental burial of a pick at ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Novo A,Lorenzo H,Rial FI,Solla M

更新日期：2011-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Obtaining palynological and other botanical evidence from murder victims is becoming part of routine mortuary protocol in the United Kingdom. Forensic pathologists are often keen to cooperate in the collection of classes of material that have, in the past, been considered to be of little importance in criminal investi...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Wiltshire PE

更新日期：2006-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:This report describes the heat-induced alterations in human bone tissue observed using scanning electron microscopy and microradiography. Femoral bone samples were taken from persons varying in age from 1 year to 97 years at the time of their death. The bone was heated at selected temperatures in the range 200-1600 de...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Holden JL,Phakey PP,Clement JG

更新日期：1995-06-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Age estimation is widely applied in several clinical and forensic fields. The radiographic evaluation of dental development is one of the most accepted tools for this purpose. Among the different methods proposed, Demirjian's method was the most extensively used and tested in the medical literature revealing that the ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Bagattoni S,D'Alessandro G,Gatto MR,Piana G

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raman spectroscopy has been used for the development of a universal method for the identification of traces of all major body fluids. Multidimensional spectroscopic signatures, which account for the intrinsic sample heterogeneity and variations between donors, have been described for blood, semen, saliva, vaginal flui...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： McLaughlin G,Lednev IK

更新日期：2014-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly efficient multifunctional agarose SERS test stripes has been fabricated by a convenient facile approach. SERS stripes were found to be highly sensitive, robust, and capable to alleviate the two major drawbacks of filter paper based SERS substrate i.e. the weak adhesion of plasmonic nanoparticles and the diffusi...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Raza A,Saha B

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe the most popular drugs and their substitutes being used in Poland. The paper also presents the problem of developing and examining criminalistic traces in biological and some non-organic materials. ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kała M,Borkowski T

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The 4977 bp deletion of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) accumulates in postmitotic tissues with advancing age. The purpose of our study was to detect and quantify these deletion even in blood cells with a high turnover activity. Whole venous blood, isolated human platelets and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) were...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Meissner C,Mohamed SA,Klueter H,Hamann K,von Wurmb N,Oehmichen M

更新日期：2000-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:A new solid-phase extraction procedure for the determination of cocaine and some of its metabolites in brain tissue, using high-flow co-polymeric sorbents is reported as a substantial improvement on our recently reported procedure. The recovery of cocaine, norcocaine and cocaethylene was excellent as was the reproduci...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Moore C,Browne S,Tebbett I,Negrusz A

更新日期：1992-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined the immunohistochemical distributions of ubiquitin (Ub) and myoglobin (Mb) in human kidney tissues to assist the pathological assessment of death due to trauma. Medicolegal autopsy cases at our institute (n=138: 0-96 years of age, 105 males and 33 females) were examined. Causes of death were blunt injury (...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Ishikawa T,Zhu BL,Li DR,Zhao D,Michiue T,Maeda H

更新日期：2007-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:We have determined the allele and genotype frequencies at the hypervariable locus D1S80 in a native Kuwaiti population using the polymerase chain reaction technique and subsequent high resolution gel electrophoresis. In a sample of 200 individuals, 21 alleles and 57 genotypes were detected. The alleles with 18 and 24 ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： al-Nassar KE,Mathew J,Thomas N,Fatania HR

更新日期：1996-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:In the early eighties, in response to increasing self-poisoning incidents by pharmaceuticals in Singapore, a comprehensive wide-sweep screen for these drugs in clinical gastric aspirates was devised and implemented by us. The toxicological screen which involved quadruplicate extractions, two in acidic conditions and t...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Chao TC,Lo DS,Gunasegaram R,Tan-Siew WF,Tay MM

更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A collaborative study on Raman spectroscopy and microspectrophotometry (MSP) was carried out by members of the ENFSI (European Network of Forensic Science Institutes) European Fibres Group (EFG) on different dyed cotton fabrics. The detection limits of the two methods were tested on two cotton sets with a dye concentr...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Massonnet G,Buzzini P,Monard F,Jochem G,Fido L,Bell S,Stauber M,Coyle T,Roux C,Hemmings J,Leijenhorst H,Van Zanten Z,Wiggins K,Smith C,Chabli S,Sauneuf T,Rosengarten A,Meile C,Ketterer S,Blumer A

更新日期：2012-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:An improved technique for cocaine extraction from urine samples for gas chromatographic (GC) analysis is described. Employing a simple liquid-liquid extraction (LLE) of cocaine with a mixture of ethyl ether:isopropanol (9:1) the method presents a mean recovery of 74.49%. Limit of detection (LOD) and limit of quantific...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Farina M,Yonamine M,Silva OA

更新日期：2002-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Traditionally, sperms are isolated from vaginal cell mixtures by preferential extraction methods. Although these methods work well when there is a reasonable amount of DNA present, they are problematic when there are limited amounts (ca. 250 pg). In particular, the analysis of sperm from microscope slides has proven d...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Elliott K,Hill DS,Lambert C,Burroughes TR,Gill P

更新日期：2003-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method was developed for the simultaneous detection and quantitation of 6-acetyl-morphine (MAM), amphetamine, benzoylecgonine (BZE), cocaine, codeine, dihydrocodeine, EDDP (methadone metabolite), methadone and morphine in hair. The hair samples were washed, cut into 2-cm segments, pulverized, incubated with phos...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Moeller MR,Fey P,Wennig R

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synchrotron infrared chemical imaging was employed to examine and assess the extent of interlayer component migration within multilayer automotive paint samples, with a particular emphasis on the cross-linking additive melamine. Two dimensional infrared chemical images revealed that melamine consistently diffuses in s...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Maric M,van Bronswijk W,Lewis SW,Pitts K,Martin DE

更新日期：2013-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Doxylamine is an antihistamine of the ethanolamine class. It is used primarily as a sleep-inducing agent. Only a few reports can be found in the literature about lethal intoxications with doxylamine, but many with combined intoxications. Doxylamine is, aside from diphenhydramine, the only chemically defined active ing...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Bockholdt B,Klug E,Schneider V

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of victims involved in mass fatality incidents has become an increasingly important issue nowadays, and identification of unknown individuals is an important aspect in criminal cases and Disaster Victim Identification scenarios. Therefore, the sex estimation is one of the most important biological a...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Gulhan O,Harrison K,Kiris A

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cadaver body bags are the conventional method to contain a human body or human remains, which includes the use for storage and transportation of the deceased at any crime scene or disaster scene. During disasters, most often than not, the first responders including the police will be equipped with cadaver body bags to...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Khoo LS,Lai PS,Saidin MH,Noor Z,Mahmood MS

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00