T2 and T2∗ mapping in ex situ porcine myocardium: myocardial intravariability, temporal stability and the effects of complete coronary occlusion.

abstract：:A publically available database of the most highly cited scientists in all disciplines was used to identify people that belonged to the subject category "forensic science and legal medicine." This bibliometric information was derived from Elsevier's SCOPUS database containing eight million scientists with at least fiv...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Jones AW

更新日期：2021-01-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Blunt thoracic aortic injury (BTAI) resulting from cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) is rarely reported and most reports are of aortic rupture. Clinical reports have also documented aortic dissection and intramural hematomas with sequential imaging showing the development of these aortic injuries after the administr...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Williams AS,Castonguay M,Murray SK

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Falls over railings are frequent case scenarios forensic experts are confronted with. An important issue is the differentiation of accidental and non-accidental falling scenarios. From a biomechanical point of view, this is a challenging task and should be addressed in a multifactorial approach. This work presents a s...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Muggenthaler H,Hubig M,Meierhofer A,Mall G

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The question of whether an individual has reached the age of 18 is of crucial importance in forensic age estimation practice. In some countries, the age threshold of 21 years is relevant as well. A completed mineralization of third molars is not a sufficient criterion for a diagnosis of a minimum age of 18 years with ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Olze A,Solheim T,Schulz R,Kupfer M,Schmeling A

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Various aspects concerning the practical application and forensic interpretation of data obtained by saliva drug testing and drug monitoring from the skin surface are discussed. Basic information on the composition of saliva and skin secretions and their particular transport mechanisms, as far as known, are given. For...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Skopp G,Pötsch L

更新日期：1999-01-01 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

authors： Kunz SN,Calkins HG,Adamec J,Kroll MW

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant exposures are among the most frequently reported cases to poison control centres worldwide. This is a growing condition due to recent societal trends oriented towards the consumption of wild plants as food, cosmetics, or medicine. At least three general causes of plant poisoning can be identified: plant misident...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Mezzasalma V,Ganopoulos I,Galimberti A,Cornara L,Ferri E,Labra M

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

authors： Akkaya N,Yılancı HÖ,Boyacıoğlu H,Göksülük D,Özkan G

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Scars of human skin can on occasions provide a very useful ancillary method of identification of an unknown deceased. If the age of any visible scars can be estimated objectively, then this might be of some assistance in the identification procedure. Melanocytes migrate into scar tissue as it ages and their number wit...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Dressler J,Busuttil A,Koch R,Harrison DJ

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:ABO blood grouping of human bloodstains was performed by a sandwich ELISA using a species-specific monoclonal antibody to the amino-terminal cytoplasmic domain of human red cell membrane band 3. In a blind trial, all A, B and O bloodstains (a 1 cm long thread) and AB bloodstains (a 1.5 cm long thread) were accurately ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Kimura A,Uda T,Nakashima S,Ikeda H,Yasuda S,Osawa M,Tsuji T

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Contrary to the traditional dogma of being a relatively invariable and quiescent organ lacking the capability to regenerate, there is now widespread evidence that the human brain harbors multipotent neural stem cells, possibly throughout senescence. These cells can divide and give rise to neuroectodermal progeny in vi...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Feldmann RE Jr,Mattern R

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During forensic investigations, it is often important to be able to distinguish between impact spatter patterns (blood from gunshots, explosives, blunt force trauma and/or machinery accidents) and bloodstain patterns generated by expiration (blood from the mouth, nose or lungs). These patterns can be difficult to dist...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Donaldson AE,Walker NK,Lamont IL,Cordiner SJ,Taylor MC

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The forensic application of mtDNA typing requires large databases which are regionally well defined. To further this aim, we have typed mtDNA in a sample of 111 French and 106 Sicilians. The French were typed for both hypervariable segments (HVR1 and HVR2) of the mtDNA control region, whereas the Sicilians were only t...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Cali F,Le Roux MG,D'Anna R,Flugy A,De Leo G,Chiavetta V,Ayala GF,Romano V

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The molecular composition of the genetic substrate recovered from seven aged forensic samples has been extensively investigated. A simple enzymatic test based on DNAseI incubation of the extracts showed that the UV-fluorescent material from the forensic specimens is composed of nucleic acids, with the DNA fraction rep...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Previderè C,Micheletti P,Perossa R,Grignani P,Fattorini P

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this investigation was to determine the cause of death of a 13-year-old girl, where none was immediately evident. Our analysis showed it to be a very unusual case of a drug-facilitated sexual assault (DFSA), which led to the tragic death of the young rape victim and then to the suicide of the rapist. Th...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Gaillard Y,Masson-Seyer MF,Giroud M,Roussot JF,Prevosto JM

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine and alcohol toxicity is well known, especially when simultaneously abused. These drugs perform both acute and chronic harmfulness, with significant cardiac events such as ventricular arrhythmias, tachycardia, systemic hypertension, acute myocardial infarction, ventricular hypertrophy, and acute coronary syndro...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Cittadini F,De Giovanni N,Alcalde M,Partemi S,Carbone A,Campuzano O,Brugada R,Oliva A

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determinations of chronologic age are of great importance in forensic science. At present the aspartic acid racemization method on teeth provides one of the best means in adult individuals. However, if teeth are not available, some other stable tissue has to be used. In this study, the applicability of cartilage from ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Pfeiffer H,Mörnstad H,Teivens A

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:2-Amino-5-chloropyridine (ACP) is a degradation product of zopiclone (ZOP) and its two main metabolites N-desmethylzopiclone (NDZOP) and zopiclone N-oxide (ZOPNO). ACP may be formed when specimens are stored. ZOP instability in blood makes interpretation of concentrations difficult especially in cases of prolonged sam...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Nilsson GH,Kugelberg FC,Ahlner J,Kronstrand R

更新日期：2015-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this casuistry, two accidents from Germany and Switzerland are presented that happened during the shot of recoilless anti-tank weapons. In both cases, the injuries led to the death of two soldiers: A 22-year-old soldier in Germany was struck by the counter mass of a so-called Davis gun which had been fired by a com...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Jellinghaus K,Scherer C,Stauffer E,Urban P,Bohnert M,Kneubuehl BP

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability to estimate stature from various parts of the body is essential in medicolegal investigations, particularly in cases in which human remains have been dismembered or mutilated. Therefore, the aim of this study was to generate linear regression models for predicting stature on the basis of sternum length in ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Macaluso PJ Jr,Lucena J

更新日期：2014-09-01 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

authors： Sperhake JP,Zimmermann I,Püschel K

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the most fundamental issues in forensic anthropology is the determination of sex and population affinity based on various skeletal elements. Therefore, we compared the sexual dimorphism of the upper facial skeleton from a recent Czech population (twenty-first century) with that of a population from Early Modern...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Bejdová Š,Dupej J,Krajíček V,Velemínská J,Velemínský P

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To examine the prevalence of hepatitis G virus (HGV) and hepatitis C virus (HCV) infections in deceased injection drug users and for comparison of the detection rates of HGV and HCV RNA in liver tissue with detection rates in postmortem serum samples, RT-PCR was performed in 50 drug abuse-related fatalities. HGV RNA w...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Seidl S,Koenig B,Reinhardt G,Hampl W,Mertens T,Michel D

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The identification of species of the forensically important genus Sarcophaga is very difficult and requires strong taxonomic expertise. In this study, we sequenced the mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase subunit I (COI) gene of 126 specimens of 56 W European Sarcophaga species and added GenBank data to our database to ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Jordaens K,Sonet G,Richet R,Dupont E,Braet Y,Desmyter S

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carisoprodol is commonly prescribed as a centrally acting muscle relaxant, but it is also subject to abuse. The literature describing fatal intoxications with the drug is limited to a relatively small number of cases, and there are inconsistencies with regard to which concentration levels that are toxic. We therefore ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Høiseth G,Bramness JG,Christophersen AS,Mørland J

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species identification from hair has been performed in the past by several techniques, such as scanning electron microscopy and polymerase chain reaction. Despite the great promise of mass spectrometry herein, the repetitive glycine stretches and the evolutionary conserved sequences of keratins make the results from c...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Van Steendam K,De Wulf O,Dhaenens M,Deforce D

更新日期：2014-09-01 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

authors： Mannucci A,Casarino L,Bruni G,Lomi A,De Stefano F

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, Verzeletti et al. (Am J Forensic Med Pathol 31:27-33, 2010) developed a new components method for the estimation of age-at-death from the sternal end of the fourth rib. This approach consists of the assignment of numerical scores for several age-related morphological characteristics, which are then inserted ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Macaluso PJ Jr,Lucena J

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Allele frequency distributions for 15 tetrameric short tandem repeat (STR) loci were determined using the AmpFlSTR® Identifiler Plus™ PCR amplification kit. There was little evidence of departures from Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium or association of alleles of different loci in the population samples. The probability of ...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Lucassen A,Ehlers K,Grobler PJ,Shezi AL

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:One of the fundamental questions in forensic medicine and anthropology is whether or not a bone or bone fragment is human. Surprisingly at times for the extreme degradation of the bone (charred, old), DNA cannot be successfully performed and one must turn to other methods. Histological analysis at times can be propose...

journal_title：International journal of legal medicine

authors： Cummaudo M,Cappella A,Biraghi M,Raffone C,Màrquez-Grant N,Cattaneo C

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00