Abstract：
:Medico-legal experts are increasingly enlisted to assess the methamphetamine and amphetamine serum concentrations after a criminal offense. However, since criminal users rarely provide useful information to medico-legal experts regarding the substances abused, when the substance(s) was/were used, dose of ingestion tools are needed to interpret the analytical data, which can be used as objective evidence in such cases. A comparative series of methamphetamine and amphetamine serum concentrations were used to analyze the frequency of concentrations, to determine methamphetamine/amphetamine concentration ratios, and prove them as a tool to distinguish pure methamphetamine from mixed amphetamine/methamphetamine ingestion. Additionally, two cases of survived accidental methamphetamine intoxication, resulting from ingestion smuggling which was longitudinally monitored, and pharmacokinetic parameters were assessed. In a series of 628 samples where the most frequent concentration of methamphetamine exceeded the therapeutic level, there was a strong correlation suggesting pure methamphetamine consumption, when the ratios of methamphetamine/amphetamine concentrations were within the range between 3 and 10. In the two cases of methamphetamine bodypacking, the relevant serum concentrations of methamphetamine and amphetamine, which could be measured up to 9 days after ingestion, indicated a decrease of the methamphetamine/amphetamine ratios in an exponential manner. However, the ratios were not always within the range between 3 and 10. Lastly, the course of the serum concentrations suggested an increase of the apparent elimination half-life of methamphetamine. In terms of the objective evidence required in criminal law, calculating methamphetamine/amphetamine concentration ratio is not a suitable to means to distinguish pure methamphetamine intake and that of mixed amphetamine/methamphetamine abuse in an individual case. Instead, methamphetamine high serum concentrations and the possible increase in apparent elimination half-life suggest that an extended detection period may be used to distinguish between "illicit use" as compared to "therapeutic use" of methamphetamine.
journal_name
Int J Legal Medjournal_title
International journal of legal medicineauthors
Weber M,Lessig R,Richter C,Ritter AP,Weiß Idoi
10.1007/s00414-017-1607-5subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-09-01 00:00:00pages
1253-1260issue
5eissn
0937-9827issn
1437-1596pii
10.1007/s00414-017-1607-5journal_volume
131pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:One of the most common conditions during fetal development is anencephaly, which often involves many identification difficulties in the context of physical anthropology, as it causes severe skull challenges. In this paper, we describe the alterations found in the skulls of two perinatal individuals with anencephaly fr...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-014-1123-9
更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:When a Y-chromosomal and a (partial) autosomal DNA profile are obtained from one crime sample, and both profiles match the suspect's profiles, we would like to know the combined evidential value. To calculate the likelihood ratio of observing the autosomal and Y-chromosomal DNA profiles combined, we need to know the c...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-014-0971-7
更新日期：2014-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The purpose of this study was to explore the applicability of periodontal ligament visibility (PLV) at the 18-year threshold. This mandibular maturity marker is graded into four separate age related stages, PLV-A, PLV-B, PLV-C, and PLV-D. These are discernible on a dental panoramic tomograph (DPT). The sample comprise...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-016-1468-3
更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The goal of the present study is to examine cross-sectional information on the growth of the humerus based on the analysis of four measurements, namely, diaphyseal length, transversal diameter of the proximal (metaphyseal) end of the shaft, epicondylar breadth and vertical diameter of the head. This analysis was perfo...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-012-0713-7
更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The yaw angle in flight of high velocity bullets has been discussed for a number of years, due to its contribution to the tumbling of the bullet in the target. Since few unclassified reports of contemporary bullets are available, we investigated the yaw angles of the bullets used in the M16A2, G3, AK-47 and AK-74 rifl...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF01225601
更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Ancestry informative markers (AIMs) can be used to detect and adjust for population stratification and predict the ancestry of the source of an evidence sample. Autosomal single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are the best candidates for AIMs. It is essential to identify the most informative AIM SNPs across relevant p...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-015-1297-9
更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Advances in forensic identification using molecular genetics are helpful in resolving some historical mysteries. The aim of this study was to confirm the authenticity of shrunken-head artifacts exhibited by two Polish museums. Shrunken heads, known as tsantsas, were headhunting trophies of South American Indians (Jiva...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 历史文章,杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-016-1448-7
更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Determination of electrolyte concentrations (mainly potassium) in vitreous humour has long been considered an important tool in human death investigations for the estimation of the post-mortem interval (PMI). On the basis of its well known potential in ion analysis, capillary zone electrophoresis (CZE) has recently be...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s004140100239
更新日期：2002-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Methadone plays an increasing role in drug-related deaths in Hamburg. To find out whether intravenous application of methadone plays a relevant role in methadone-related deaths, body fluids of all methadone-positive cases (n=130) and three buprenorphine-positive cases where a urine sample was available (n=58+3) were i...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-014-1017-x
更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Abstract DNA typing of four tetrameric repeat loci (HUMVWA, HUMTH0I, D21SII and HPRT) was carried out in a Chinese Han population from Shanghai (East China) and one from Guangzhou (South-East China) using a quadruplex PCR amplification and detection of the fluorescent-labeled alleles on the ALF DNA sequencer. All loci...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s004140050187
更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Myocardial infarctions go along with biomechanical stress, i.e. stretching of muscle fibres, and the expression of certain marker molecules. We tested if two of those markers, endothelin-1 (ET-1) and growth differentiation factor 15 (GDF-15), can be used as immunohistochemical markers for myocardial ischaemia/infarcti...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-017-1726-z
更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Crania are a reliable source for sex estimation in Euro-Americans, Europeans, and most other populations. Besides morphological assessments, the application of Fordisc® has become a useful tool within the last two decades, creating discriminant functions from morphometric data. Unfortunately, until now, white populati...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-016-1469-2
更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：INTRODUCTION:Electronic control with the CEW (conducted electrical weapon) has gained widespread acceptance as the preferred force option due to its significant injury reduction. However, a CEW application does stress the human body. In the case of the CEW, the human body response is similar to the challenge of physica...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章,meta分析,评审
doi：10.1007/s00414-018-1771-2
更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In the last decade, increasing knowledge of epigenetics has led to the development of DNA methylation-based models to predict age, which have shown high predictive accuracy. However, despite the value of teeth as forensic samples, few studies have focused on this source of DNA. This study used bisulfite pyrosequencing...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-019-02242-7
更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Allele frequencies and forensic parameters for 17 autosomal short tandem repeat (STR) loci were investigated from 1542 individuals of Va ethnic minority in Yunnan Province in the southwest of China. Also, genetic distances between Va and 13 published populations were compared, and a neighbor-joining (NJ) phylogenetic ...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-017-1620-8
更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:For the interpretation of the concentration of morphine in blood samples of heroin consumers information about the concentration of the analgesic active morphine metabolite morphine-6-glucuronide is very important. Thus a simple but specific clean-up procedure based on immuno-affinity chromatography is presented for t...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s004140050073
更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:On September 23rd 1993 Genova was flooded by heavy rainstorms and 4 people disappeared, including an elderly couple. Four days later a partially skeletonized body was found floating near the coast. No visual identification was possible. Autopsy findings were consistent with the medical history of a possible victim. DN...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/BF01428409
更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is a target for public health care in Germany. The aim of this study was to monitor data on risk-related behavior in the population of Hamburg, Germany, in order to respond to changes quickly and to estimate the effectiveness of prevention activities. Data have been gathered using t...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-008-0298-3
更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Volatile substances are used widespread, especially among young people, as a cheap and easily accessible drug. Tetrachloroethylene is one of the solvents exerting effects on the central nervous system with experiences of disinhibition and euphoria. The case presented is that of a 27-year-old female, found dead by her ...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-015-1143-0
更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In kinship analysis, large data sets with estimated haplotype frequencies for marker clusters are very important for the likelihood calculation. Practical use of the X-STRs demonstrated that in some complex kinship cases, the marker set of the Investigator Argus X-12 kit can be insufficient. This study aimed to extend...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-020-02306-z
更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this study, a total of 191 cases with STR exclusions out of 591 paternity cases were analysed using 2 STR sets, i.e. (set a) 5 STRs in 462 cases with 150 exclusions and (set b) 9 STRs in 129 cases with 41 exclusions. Set (a) was associated with four exclusions on average while set (b) showed five exclusionary loci ...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s004140000174
更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Sex estimation is a task of utmost importance in forensic anthropology and bioarcheology. Along with the pelvic bone, the skull is the most important source of sexual dimorphism. On the human skull, the upper third of the face (i.e., the frontal bone) is one of the most significant sexually dimorphic structures useful...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-019-02063-8
更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：BACKGROUNDS:Aortic rupture or dissection as immediate cause of sudden death is encountered in forensic and clinical autopsy practice. Despite a common denominator of 'sudden aortic death' (SAD), we expect that in both settings the diagnostic workup, being either primarily legal or primarily disease related, differs sub...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-017-1560-3
更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Immunohistochemistry is a well-established technique used in many research laboratories as well as in clinical diagnostics. The method allows to visualize the expression of proteins in biological tissues, as well as to evaluate this expression semi-quantitatively. For diagnosis, an optimal staining, based on a straigh...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-017-1575-9
更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In the present study 161 Japanese father/son haplotype transfers in 147 pedigrees were analyzed at 14 Y-STRs with two multiplex PCR-based typing systems. Five isolated single repeat mutations were identified at the DYS389I, DYS439, Y-GATA-H4, DYS389II and DYS391 loci, and a pedigree showing triple alleles at the DYS38...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-003-0422-3
更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：AIM:To determine the frequency of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR)-related injuries and factors involved in their occurrence, data based on forensic autopsy and postmortem computed tomography (PMCT) during implementation of the 2010 American Heart Association Guidelines for CPR were studied. METHODS:We retrospectiv...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-017-1673-8
更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In many countries, assessment of legal age, also known as age of majority, has become increasingly important over the years. In China, individuals older than 18 years of age have full capacity regarding civil conduct and can be tried as an adult for criminal charges. Therefore, from a legal point of view, it is crucia...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-018-1907-4
更新日期：2018-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：INTRODUCTION:The impact of socioeconomic status (SES) on tooth mineralization has seldom been evaluated. This is important because SES can be used as a proxy for quantifying factors in the environmental that can impact mineralization but that can be difficult to measure directly, such as nutrition. OBJECTIVE:The objec...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-016-1476-3
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Evaluation of the radiographic visibility of root pulp in mandibular third molars has been suggested as an alternative method for estimation of legal age threshold in living individuals when the root apices are mature. Here, we assessed the accuracy of this method for age thresholds of 18 and 21 years. A sample of 463...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-019-02036-x
更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We hypothesized that miRNAs present in vitreous humor could be a sort of "biological black box," storing information about physiological and environmental circumstances at death. As a proof of concept, we analyzed the vitreous humor miRNA signature to explore its forensic potential applications, such as determining th...
journal_title：International journal of legal medicine
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1007/s00414-012-0811-6
更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00
