HIV-1 prevalence among drug deaths--a multicenter study.

abstract：:With the increasing prevalence of obesity, the use of counterfeit drugs for weight loss is widespread owing to their easy and rapid availability. Since counterfeit weight-loss drugs are not prepared under the rigorous standard of Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP), they pose a risk to public health and cause significan...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Lee JH,Park HN,Kim NS,Park S,Bogonda G,Oh K,Kang H

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:GHB has been implicated in many cases of suspected surreptitious administration with the purpose of increasing victim vulnerability to sexual assault. Low amounts of endogenous (or naturally occurring) GHB, which do not reach pharmacologically active levels, have been detected in alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages....

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Elliott SP,Fais P

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large number of passerine birds, mainly greenfinches, were found dead or dying in a hedgerow close to a field of onions recently sprayed with sodium monochloroacetate (SMCA). An analytical method is described for isolating monochloroacetic acid from bird tissues, as its potassium salt, by ion exchange chromatography...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Quick MP,Porter S,Bennett AC,Fleetwood AJ

更新日期：1992-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of the study is to better understand how blunt projectile ballistic parameters and material properties influence the events leading to injuries. The present work focuses on lateral thoracic impacts and follows an experimental approach. The projectiles are made with a soft foam nose assembled with a rigid...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Pavier J,Langlet A,Eches N,Prat N,Bailly P,Jacquet JF

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:In this paper we propose an innovative methodology for automated profiling of illicit tablets by their surface granularity; a feature previously unexamined for this purpose. We make use of the tiny inconsistencies at the tablet surface, referred to as speckles, to generate a quantitative granularity profile of tablets...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Lopatka M,Vallat M

更新日期：2011-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele and genotype frequencies of the three tetrameric short tandem repeat (STR) 1 Oci D351744 D1251090 and D185849 were analyzed in a German sample population using a multiplex PCR and electrophoresis of amplified products in denaturing gels followed by silver staining. Testing for Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium showed ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Stein C,Lange T,Ferencik S,Grosse-Wilde H,Henssge C

更新日期：1998-01-30 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：:The Bavarian State Bureau of Investigation in Munich has the exclusive responsibility for investigation of criminal acts. One considerable expertise is that of hair analysis. According to the legal system in Germany, there is a special interest when some clients' hair tested positive for illicit drugs. An accused with...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Uhl M

更新日期：2000-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Our aim was to investigate the reason for relatively low detection rates for opioids and fentanyl in particular in post-mortem cases in the State of Hamburg. We re-analysed 822 blood samples from two different time periods, 2011/12 and 2016. These samples had been previously analysed in accordance with post-mortem rou...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Schönfeld T,Heinemann A,Schulz M,Gradl G,Andresen-Streichert H,Müller A,Iwersen-Bergmann S

更新日期：2019-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemicals associated with clandestine drug laboratories are often disposed of covertly into soil, sewerage systems, or public waste management facilities. There are two significant issues relating to such dumps of materials; they might contain valuable evidence as to drug manufacture, and they might be a source of pol...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Janusz A,Kirkbride KP,Scott TL,Naidu R,Perkins MV,Megharaj M

更新日期：2003-06-24 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：:3-Methylmethcathinone (3-MMC or metaphedrone) is a synthetic cathinone, recently introduced in the market of the new psychoactive substances (NPS), initially to replace mephedrone (4-methylmethcathinone or 4-MMC), and rapidly widespread among drug users. 3-Methylmethcathinone is legally controlled in many countries, b...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Ferreira B,Dias da Silva D,Carvalho F,de Lourdes Bastos M,Carmo H

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fingerprints present in false identity documents were found on the web. In some cases, laterally reversed (mirrored) images of a same fingerprint were observed in different documents. In the present work, 100 fingerprints images downloaded from the web, as well as their reversals obtained by image editing, were compar...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Girelli CM

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Body components of aviation accident fatalities are often scattered, disintegrated, commingled, contaminated, and/or putrefied at accident scenes. These situations may impose difficulties in victim identification/tissue matching. The prevalence of misidentification in relation to aviation accident forensic toxicology ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Chaturvedi AK,Craft KJ,Kupfer DM,Burian D,Canfield DV

更新日期：2011-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Every year thousands of migrants die during the endeavour to reach the Italian coasts, making the Mediterranean the theatre of one of the greatest tragedies of mankind. Over 60% of these victims is buried unidentified: one of the reasons behind this is related to the specific difficulties and lack of strategies concer...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Olivieri L,Mazzarelli D,Bertoglio B,De Angelis D,Previderè C,Grignani P,Cappella A,Presciuttini S,Bertuglia C,Di Simone P,Polizzi N,Iadicicco A,Piscitelli V,Cattaneo C

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The detection and identification of volatile compounds is essential to the successful undertaking of numerous forensic analyses. Biological olfactory systems possess the extraordinary ability to not only detect many thousands of distinct volatile compounds (odors) but also to discriminate between them. Whole-organism ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Leitch O,Anderson A,Kirkbride KP,Lennard C

更新日期：2013-10-10 00:00:00

abstract：:A minisatellite probe, MZ 1.3, detecting hypervariable fragment patterns was isolated from a human genomic library. A repetitive sequence of 27 bp length was identified which is contained in the probe approx. 40 times. The MZ 1.3 repeat shows variable homology of 53-73% to the repetitive sequence of the protein III ge...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Schacker U,Schneider PM,Holtkamp B,Bohnke E,Fimmers R,Sonneborn HH,Rittner C

更新日期：1990-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to analyse a wide range of xenobiotics and their metabolites present in biological fluids, NMR spectroscopy can be used. A large variety of xenobiotics (therapeutic agents, pesticides, solvents, alcohols) can be characterized and quantitated directly, without sample preparation. NMR investigations were applie...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Imbenotte M,Azaroual N,Cartigny B,Vermeersch G,Lhermitte M

更新日期：2003-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：:The weights of normal organs were retrospectively culled for the years 1987-1991 from 684 forensic autopsy cases. All the subjects were Caucasoid adults who died of external causes and showed no pathological changes. The weights of the following organs were available: the heart, the right and the left lung, the liver,...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： de la Grandmaison GL,Clairand I,Durigon M

更新日期：2001-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：:In this follow-up study the collaboration between two research groups from the USA and the Netherlands was continued to expand the framework of chemical attribution for the homemade explosive erythritol tetranitrate (ETN). Isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS) analysis was performed to predict possible links between ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Bezemer K,McLennan L,Hessels R,Schoorl J,van den Elshout J,van der Heijden A,Hulsbergen A,Koeberg M,Busby T,Yevdokimov A,de Rijke E,Schoenmakers P,Smith J,Oxley J,van Asten A

更新日期：2020-08-01 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：:During the past decade, several studies have been carried out using the calcaneus bone for sex estimation. This paper collected data using ten variables for metric characteristics of the calcaneus of 144 modern Cretans and examined their correlation with known sex. Secondly, the formulae developed by Peckmann et al. (...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Nathena D,Michopoulou E,Kranioti EF

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The infliction of a bite is a four-dimensional space-time event that is ideally analyzed with three-dimensional (3-D) technology. Comparison of 2-D images (photographs) of a bitemark with a 3-D replica of a suspect's dentition is challenging. The authors present a technique that produces 3-D images of indented marks a...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Martin-de-las-Heras S,Tafur D

更新日期：2009-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two cases of human consumption of seeds from Argyreia nervosa (Hawaiian Baby Woodrose), which resulted in one fatality due to falling from a building and one surviving witness. The principal psychoactive constituent of the seeds, lysergamide (LSA), was recovered from blood and urine samples by mixed-mode c...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Klinke HB,Müller IB,Steffenrud S,Dahl-Sørensen R

更新日期：2010-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：:CT-scanning as routine examination before medico-legal autopsy was introduced at the Institute of Forensic Medicine in Copenhagen, Denmark, in December 2002. The present series comprises of 525 medico-legal examinations performed in the year 2003. The purpose is to determine the value of CT-scanning prior to the post-...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Poulsen K,Simonsen J

更新日期：2007-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most consistently used methods of postmortem interval estimation (PMIE) is by means of body temperature measurements. Several variations of this method exist, from simple 'rules of the thumb' to quite complex equations requiring a knowledge of body mass and height. All of these methods employ a certain degr...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Green MA,Wright JC

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two rates of carbon dioxide flow into the termination chamber were applied for the euthanasia of rats. The classical phases of asphyxia were observed in both groups of animals although their course was prolonged in rats exposed to the lower gas flow. The haemorrhages were assessed histologically in the following struc...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Hauser R,Jankowski Z,Gos T,Krzyzanowski M

更新日期：2001-12-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Household products such as bleach, gasoline or hydrochloric acid have been used to mask the presence of a cadaver or to prevent the colonization of insects. These types of chemicals affect insect development and alter the forensic entomology analysis. This study was designed to test the effects of six household produc...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Aubernon C,Charabidzé D,Devigne C,Delannoy Y,Gosset D

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pilot study has been performed to evaluate the usefulness of isolated viable rat cardiac myocytes in the evaluation of histochemical oxidoreductase methods for estimating cellular anoxic damage. Data are presented in support of the use of succinate dehydrogenase and beta-hydroxybutyrate dehydrogenase for evaluating ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Jakobsson SW

更新日期：1980-11-01 00:00:00