abstract：:In this study, we resolved the allelic distribution of three Y chromosomal short tandem repeats (STRs), DYS19 (n=218), DYS390 (n=257) and DYS393 (n=215), in a population study of 257 unrelated men living in the area of South Wüerttemberg/Hohenzollern. In DYS19 and in DYS393, five different alleles were discovered, and...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Graw M,Seitz T

更新日期：2000-09-11 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：:The adhesion molecules identified in recent years can help improve the diagnosis of the wound age, especially of injuries with a short survival time. This is also indicative of the vitality of the wounds. The material investigated in the study originated from 465 skin wounds. The samples were taken from human autopsy ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Dressler J,Bachmann L,Strejc P,Koch R,Müller E

更新日期：2000-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Renal specimens from 19 autopsies of persons known to be intravenous heroin-addicts and with severe lympho-monocytic glomerulonephritis were investigated to correlate the inflammatory activity and deposits of immunoglobulin and complement. In all sections, there were 10 or more LCA-positive cells/glomerulum, counted i...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Dettmeyer R,Stojanovski G,Madea B

更新日期：2000-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Suicide attempts can be described to include all actions taken by an individual to end their life as a result of acute desperation. In parallel with the changes in the make-up of human societies both globally and in this country in recent years, suicide attempts are receiving attention in ever increasing proportions. ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Tüzün B,Polat O,Vatansever S,Elmas I

更新日期：2000-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzodiazepines are one of the most widely prescribed drugs for the treatment of a wide spectrum of clinical disorders. They are used as anticonvulsants, anxiolytics, hypnotics or muscle relaxants with different duration of action. In this paper, a simple and sensitive method for the determination of benzodiazepines i...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Inoue H,Maeno Y,Iwasa M,Matoba R,Nagao M

更新日期：2000-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:To outline the recent features of methamphetamine-related fatalities from the medico-legal point of view, a retrospective investigation of forensic autopsy cases involving methamphetamine during a 5-year period (1994-1998) in the southern half of Osaka city and surrounding areas (about 1.57 million population) was und...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Zhu BL,Oritani S,Shimotouge K,Ishida K,Quan L,Fujita MQ,Ogawa M,Maeda H

更新日期：2000-09-11 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：:The amplification of the STR DYS391, using the primers described in the Genome Data Base (GDB: G00-365-251), shows not only an additional band to the Y-specific one in males with a size range of 26 bp less than those of DYS391 locus alleles, but also a polymorphic pattern in females in the same size range as the addit...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Gusmão L,González-Neira A,Sánchez-Diz P,Lareu MV,Amorim A,Carracedo A

更新日期：2000-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Thymic involution has been reported to be an important parameter of the degree and duration of child abuse. In the present study, we assessed the status of tyrosine phosphorylation signaling, which is known to play a key role in the physiological function of the thymus, in involuted thymuses of abused children through...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Nishio H,Matsui K,Tsuji H,Tamura A,Suzuki K

更新日期：2000-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven Y-specific STR loci (DYS19, DYS389I, DY5389II, DYS390, DYS391, DYS392 and DYS393) were studied in five populations from the Iberian Peninsula: Andalusia, Valencia, Basque Country, Galicia and Northern Portugal. Haplotype and allele frequencies of these seven Y-chromosome STRs were estimated. Observed haplotype d...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： González-Neira A,Gusmão L,Brión M,Lareu MV,Amorim A,Carracedo A

更新日期：2000-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The paper extends on the traditional methodology used to quantify DNA evidence in paternity or identification cases. By extending we imply that there are more than two alternatives to choose between. In a standard paternity case the two competing explanations H(1): "John Doe is the father of the child and H(2): "A ran...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Egeland T,Mostad PF,Mevâg B,Stenersen M

更新日期：2000-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The relationship between extracellular abdominal impedance and postmortem interval (PMI) reflects the combined effects, on impedance, of postmortem cooling of the tissues and of autolysis per se. This study was performed in order to eliminate temperature change as a major factor contributing to the time course of post...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Querido D

更新日期：2000-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:HLA-DQA1 and polymarker (LDLR, GYPA, HBGG, D7S8, and GC) genotypic and allelic frequencies are determined for a population sample of 102 unrelated Basque individuals using PCR-based methodology. All six loci met Hardy-Weinberg expectations in at least two of the three analyses performed (HLA-DQA1 failed to meet Hardy-...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Brown RJ,Rowold D,Tahir M,Barna C,Duncan G,Herrer RJ

更新日期：2000-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The smuggling of illicit drugs by means of body packing has become a common problem at European airports. Europe is considered to be the fastest growing market for cocaine worldwide, and the air route is the most frequently used method of trafficking cocaine. Smuggling illicit drugs by use of body packing is considere...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Stichenwirth M,Stelwag-Carion C,Klupp N,Hönigschnabl S,Vycudilik W,Bauer G,Risser D

更新日期：2000-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We review eight different data sets in this paper for the purposes of assessing the possibility that reported color of hair can produce a systematic bias in the interpretation of hair assays. We review studies or data sets that include heroin and its metabolites, cocaine and its metabolites, MDMA and its analogs, and ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Mieczkowski T,Newel R

更新日期：2000-01-10 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：:During the last 2 decades there has been a substantial increase in illicit drug consumption in North America. It has been repeatedly shown that the personal history of drug use is far from being accurate. Fearing legal consequences and embarrassment of admitted illicit substance use, most users tend to deny or, to und...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Klein J,Karaskov T,Koren G

更新日期：2000-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：:To improve the possibilities to delimitate the time of death after longer laytime, it was examined if this is possible by immunohistochemical insulin detection. The results show that in our examination material, the pancreatic beta-cells of up to 12-day-old corpses produce a positive immunoreaction towards insulin in ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Wehner F,Wehner HD,Schieffer MC,Subke J

更新日期：1999-11-08 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

abstract：:Allele frequency data for eight short tandem repeat (STR) loci, HUMF13A01, HUMFESFPS, HUMF13B, HUMLPL, HUMCSF1PO, HUMTPOX, HUMTHO1 and HUMvWA, were obtained for unrelated individuals in a Saudi Arabian population. All loci, except F13B (P = 0.037) and LPL (P = 0.035), meet Hardy-Weinberg expectations, based on the exa...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Sinha S,Amjad M,Rogers C,Hamby JE,Tahir UA,Balamurugan K,al-Kubaidan NA,Choudhry AR,Budowle B,Tahir MA

更新日期：1999-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate histological features of freezing damages to human tissue after death, we froze samples of liver and heart tissue to temperatures of -12 degrees C, -28 degrees C and -80 degrees C, and stored them for 24 and 72 h, respectively, at those temperatures. After thawing and routine preparation for histo...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Schäfer AT,Kaufmann JD

更新日期：1999-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Urine is often the sample of choice for drug screening in aviation/general forensic toxicology and in workplace drug testing. In some instances, the origin of the submitted samples may be challenged because of the medicolegal and socioeconomic consequences of a positive drug test. Methods for individualization of biol...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Vu NT,Chaturvedi AK,Canfield DV

更新日期：1999-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Population studies were carried out on the Y-specific short tandem repeat (STR) systems DYS19, DYS389I + II, DYS390 and DYS393 in a Western German population sample. Determination of the allele frequencies revealed for all these systems, unimodal distribution. The number of observed alleles varied: five for DYS19, six...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Junge A,Madea B

更新日期：1999-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:A 56-year-old man is discovered unconscious in a pool of blood in the kitchen of his house. According to findings, the man used a 22 long Rifle to fire 14 shots at his thorax with trajectories going from front to back, from right to left and on a nearly horizontal level. All the projectiles got into the left front sid...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Boxho P

更新日期：1999-04-12 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe two suicide cases in which old paraquat was ingested. In conjunction with lung involvement a pronounced degeneration was observed in skeletal muscle of one who died on the 14th day after the ingestion. The following sarcoplasmic or endoplasmic reticulum Ca2+ ATPase (SERCA) monoclonal antibodies were used f...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Tabata N,Morita M,Mimasaka S,Funayama M,Hagiwara T,Abe M

更新日期：1999-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Chemical and physicochemical examinations of the fragments of an Egyptian mummy dated between the 3rd and 1st century B.C. were performed. The chemical examinations indicated the presence of resin in the skull and in the fragments of bandages wrapped around the mummy. An analysis of the infrared spectra of the fragmen...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kłys M,Lech T,Zieba-Palus J,Białka J

更新日期：1999-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Debrisoquine hydroxylase (CYP2D6) is involved in the metabolism of many toxicologically important drugs. The gene encoding for this enzyme displays a polymorphic distribution in all populations examined. We report a study on 46 cases, where analyses of the CYP2D6 gene were conducted on postmortem femoral blood in orde...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Druid H,Holmgren P,Carlsson B,Ahlner J

更新日期：1999-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study is to estimate the age of cadavers by histomorphometry of the femur. Seventy-two Japanese males ranged from 43 days to 92 years old and 26 females ranged from 2 to 88 years old were used. The thickness of sections was adjusted at 50 to 70 microns by grinding with sand paper. The sections were...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Watanabe Y,Konishi M,Shimada M,Ohara H,Iwamoto S

更新日期：1998-11-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin plays an important role in tissue repair and wound healing. Previous literature reports indicated that fibronectin could be a marker of vitality for wounds with a survival time of more than a few minutes. In order to verify these findings were performed immunohistochemical investigations on the expression ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Grellner W,Dimmeler S,Madea B

更新日期：1998-11-09 00:00:00

abstract：:A population study on thirteen short tandem repeat (STR) loci was performed on 223 unrelated Italian Caucasians. The DNA was amplified by PCR. Separation and detection of the amplified STR fragments was carried out by use of 377 automated system (Applied Biosystems Division/Perkin Elmer). All loci meet Hardy-Weinberg ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Garofano L,Pizzamiglio M,Vecchio C,Lago G,Floris T,D'Errico G,Brembilla G,Romano A,Budowle B

更新日期：1998-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of any forensic inquiry concerning accidental or criminal cremations is to identify the victims. This identification depends on an essential approach: a careful collection and ultrasonic cleaning of the fragments and splinters of burned bones, and reconstruction--as far as possible--of bone specimens, which im...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Grévin G,Bailet P,Quatrehomme G,Ollier A

更新日期：1998-09-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Illicit cocaine samples (156), seized on Rome's illegal market between January 1996 and June 1997, were examined. Both the purity of the cocaine and the presence of substances employed for dilution were determined for each sample. Adulterants were found in many of the street samples analysed. Lidocaine (average 14.7%)...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Fucci N,De Giovanni N

更新日期：1998-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors have analyzed 80 skeletons (40 males and 40 females) from the collection at the Institute of Legal Medicine of the University of Bari belonging to a known contemporary Southern Italian population; time of death was around 1970 and ages ranged from 25 to 80 years. Seven measurements taken on 80 intact, unde...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Introna F Jr,Di Vella G,Campobasso CP

更新日期：1998-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The autopsy findings from two rare cases of sudden death concerning a 31- and a 44-year-old woman are reported. Autopsy and morphological examination revealed a dissection of the aorta but no rupture into the pericardial sac. In both cases mucoid deposits in all layers of the media and rarefication of the elastic fibe...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Dettmeyer R,Schmidt P,Madea B

更新日期：1998-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic DNA samples from 222 individuals from Southern China, 154 individuals from Thailand, 100 individuals from Japan as well as from 124 German individuals were analysed for the short tandem repeat (STR) locus D12S391. Typing was carried out by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) amplification and subsequent polyacryra...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Waiyawuth W,Zhang L,Rittner C,Schneider PM

更新日期：1998-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken for the purpose of analysing under the aspect of legal medicine, fatal accidents due to train surfing in the local transport system of Berlin (S-Bahn and underground). The period of investigation was from 1989 through 1995, with 41 train surfing accidents, among them 18 with fatal outcome. Ev...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Strauch H,Wirth I,Geserick G

更新日期：1998-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Two hundred and sixty UK Caucasian individuals have been typed for the STR locus D12S391. Measurements of absolute band shift, relative to an allelic ladder, allowed fragments differing by one base pair to be consistently distinguished. The intermediate alleles typed from such fragments comprised approximately 5% of t...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Phillips CP,Syndercombe Court D,Lareu MV,Hasskamp J,Carracedo A

更新日期：1998-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of skeletal trauma is an important aspect of forensic case work. Yet most major pathology references devote limited attention to this topic. The aim of this paper is to analyze beveling in gunshot entrance wounds, from a series of 27 cases with a total of 39 wounds. Assessment was made by measuring the ex...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Quatrehomme G,Işcan MY

更新日期：1998-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing use of the potent hallucinogenic drug D-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) makes the application of highly sensitive analytical techniques necessary. For an effective analysis of biological specimens a limit of detection in the sub-ng/ml range is required. Using capillary electrophoresis (CE), with laser-...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Frost M,Köhler H

更新日期：1998-04-05 00:00:00