abstract：:Retrospective analysis of 215 deaths in the bathtub (Institute of Forensic Medicine, University of Cologne, 1980-1993) revealed 12 fatalities involving children, seven boys and five girls, aged from 9 months to 13 years. The manner and cause of death was seven accidents (five by drowning, two by scalding burns), two n...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Schmidt P,Madea B

更新日期：1995-03-31 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for identifying human skeletal muscle by detection of human myoglobin using a double-sandwich ELISA was developed. When an extract was prepared from 0.1 g skeletal muscle homogenized with 10 ml PBS, this method was able to detect human myoglobin in extracts diluted 10(4)-fold. There was no difference in the d...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kitao T,Miyaishi S,Ishizu H

更新日期：1995-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The allele frequency distributions of four VNTR loci amplified by PCR have been studied in a population of 205 individuals from Spain. The loci analysed are D1S80 and three STRs: HUMTH01, HUMFES/FPS and HUMACTBF2 (SE33). The former was visualized in Metaphor agarose gels, and the STRs in sequencing polyacrylamide gels...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Cabrero C,Díez A,Valverde E,Carracedo A,Alemany J

更新日期：1995-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Forensic material of alcoholics was compared with controls with regard to the height, weight, state of nutrition, stature, the ageing process and the presence of traumatic lesions. Surprisingly, it was found that alcoholic women were taller than controls. Alcoholics were significantly more often slightly undernourishe...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Thomsen JL,Albrektsen SB

更新日期：1995-01-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Hair analysis has been presented by some authors as a possible tool of investigation for estimating patients' compliance to long-term therapies. This paper summarises the different publications that have been devoted to this topic and highlights the available statistically data presented to support this proposition. Q...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Tracqui A,Kintz P,Mangin P

更新日期：1995-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Capillary electrophoresis, the modern approach to instrumental electrophoresis, is probably the most rapidly expanding analytical technique that has appeared in recent years. In the hands of forensic toxicologists, capillary electrophoresis (CE) represents a powerful new analytical tool, which has proved suitable for ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Tagliaro F,Smyth WF,Turrina S,Deyl Z,Marigo M

更新日期：1995-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:In 1968, when the Harvard Committee defined brain-death to characterize irreversible coma, the question of when a doctor might stop resuscitation remained unresolved: brain-death is a safe, but not a sufficient criterion. Furthermore, the committee defined brain-death to be the death of man without any more than pragm...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Wuermeling HB

更新日期：1994-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Middle European medico-legal climate, the moral rule 'salus aegroti suprema lex' has been accepted for a long time. In the last few years, under the pressure of fear of accusation of a paternalistic attitude, this postulate has been changed to 'voluntas aegroti suprema lex'. The question stands: Is this valid i...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Neoral L

更新日期：1994-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA from the short tandem repeat (STR) system HUMTH01 was amplified by the polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and analyzed by vertical electrophoresis in polyacrylamide gels followed by silver staining. DNA samples from 100 unrelated Danes, 147 unrelated Greenland Eskimos, and 89 Danish mother/child pairs were analyzed. ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Nellemann LJ,Møller A,Morling N

更新日期：1994-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:A comparison study of the American style ASP extendible police baton with the conventional UK police wooden truncheon was performed. It was found that the ASP baton generated approximately twice the contact pressure than the conventional wooden truncheon. A discussion on the medical/legal aspects of the results are gi...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Roberts A,Nokes L,Leadbeatter S,Pike H

更新日期：1994-06-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Luminescent lanthanide ions such as Eu3+ and Tb3+ show emission enhancement, when complexed with Ruhemann's Purples (RPs, reaction products of ninhydrin and ninhydrin analogs with amino acids) via intramolecular energy transfer from the RP ligands (good absorbers) to the ions Eu3+ and Tb+3 (efficient emitters). The au...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Alaoui IM,Menzel RE

更新日期：1994-06-10 00:00:00

abstract：:The typing of the D1S8 (MS32) locus using the minisatellite variant repeat (MVR) polymerase chain reaction (PCR) method was performed by visualising amplified DNA stained with ethidium bromide. The results from rapid detection MVR-PCR were compared with those from the original MVR-PCR using Southern blot hybridisation...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Yamamoto T,Tamaki K,Kojima T,Uchihi R,Katsumata Y,Jeffreys AJ

更新日期：1994-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis (RFLP-analysis) was carried out on blood samples from 616 unrelated Danish Caucasians. DNA was restricted with Hinf I and analyzed with the single locus variable number tandem repeats (VNTR) probes MS1, MS31, MS43a and YNH24. The effect of the sample size on the estima...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Eriksen B,Svensmark O

更新日期：1994-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence of rare disease may be useful in the identification of unknown remains. Osteodystrophy is a condition commonly associated with chronic renal failure. The presence of renal osteodystrophy and medical artifacts associated with the treatment of kidney failure in human remains may provide information about the in...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： London MR,Libbey NP,Shemin DG,Chazan JA

更新日期：1994-03-25 00:00:00

abstract：:An ingestion of an unknown quantity of U 46 D-Fluid (500 g dichlorophenoxyacetic acid/l) in a suicide is described. Although 2,4-dichlorophenoxyacetic acid (2,4 D) is widely used as a herbicide, intoxications are relatively rare. Quantitation of 2,4-D was performed by diethyl ether extraction from acidified samples (v...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Keller T,Skopp G,Wu M,Aderjan R

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reported are various techniques to determine the early postmortem period by examining the eye. These include corneal opacity, retinal vessel segmentation, pupil reaction, retinal changes and intraocular pressure. All are subjective, requiring experience to implement the techniques. ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Jaafar S,Nokes LD

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Petechial haemorrhages of the conjunctivae are not specific for lethal throttling or strangulation, but they belong to the important indicators for such mechanisms. In experimental models it is shown that petechial bleedings of the conjunctivae disappear with the occurrence of advanced signs of putrefaction or in case...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Betz P,Penning R,Keil W

更新日期：1994-01-01 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：:Eleven laboratories interested in the analysis of human hair for drugs of abuse participated in a study to determine how well drugs could be detected and quantified in hair. For the two exercises completed to date, substances to be determined were limited to cocaine, benzoylecgonine, and morphine. Samples sent to the ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Welch MJ,Sniegoski LT,Allgood CC

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 26-year-old male was found naked and excited in the backyard of his neighbor's house. He was carried to a nearby hospital, and returned home with his family, but took a sudden turn for the worse and died. In a judicial autopsy, the ethanol concentration of blood was found to be 0.58 milligrams, and methamphetamine (...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Katsumata S,Sato K,Kashiwade H,Yamanami S,Zhou H,Yonemura I,Nakajima H,Hasekura H

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The alarming increase of drug mortality rates in Germany was followed by research projects to enlighten the causes of this increase. The results of the Bremen, Hamburg and Berlin studies 1991-92, led to the conclusion that specific risk constellations have to be considered in the process of improving the drug counsell...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Zenker HJ,Zenker C,Lang P

更新日期：1993-11-01 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：:Since 1985 several European Institutes of Forensic Medicine have cooperated in a multicenter study providing a constant monitoring of HIV-1 prevalence among drug-related deaths. From 1985 to 1991 the HIV status of 5372 drug-related fatalities (4328 males, 1044 females) has been tested. A total of 764 (14%) drug deaths...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Lockemann U,Püschel K

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a differential study to distinguish bruises from putrefactive discoloration, glycophorin A, a component of the erythrocyte membrane, was extracted from discolored skins and detected by immunological methods utilizing an anti-glycophorin A serum. Skin samples of 18 bruises, 8 postmortem hypostasises and 7 putrefacti...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kibayashi K,Hamada K,Honjyo K,Tsunenari S

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Head hair samples obtained from surgery patients who received fentanyl during anesthesia were analyzed by immunoassay for the presence of fentanyl. Thirteen hair samples were collected from patients following intravenous administration of 1-6 mg of fentanyl. Additional hair samples were collected following the adminis...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Wang WL,Cone EJ,Zacny J

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fibronectin, collagen type III, laminin, and cytokeratin 5 were visualized in normal skin and in skin showing early or advanced signs of autolytic decomposition to prove whether the immunohistochemical analysis of these antigens can provide useful information for an age-estimation of skin wounds obtained from putrifie...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Betz P,Nerlich A,Wilske J,Tübel J,Penning R,Eisenmenger W

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of europium luminescence to the visualisation of cyanoacrylate developed fingerprints is reported. Extremely fluorescent europium chelates are produced by the reaction of Eu3+ ions with aryl-beta-diketones. Excitation of the organic ligand occurs at 350 nm for europium tris(thenoyltrifluoroacetone) (TE...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Wilkinson DA,Watkin JE

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Site and temporal changes in tranylcypromine (TCP) and lithium concentrations in blood were studied in a human poisoning case. Blood samples from peripheral vessels and six central vessels were obtained at 0, 6, 24, 48 and 72 h after starting the autopsy. Nine tissue samples were obtained on completion. TCP showed pre...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Yonemitsu K,Pounder DJ

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Capillary high performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) was combined with frit fast atom bombardment (FAB) mass spectrometry (MS) and a detailed procedure has been established for on-line analysis of cefaclor in human serum. The capillary column (0.3 mm i.d.) enabled the introduction of entire effluent to the frit int...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Sato K,Kobayashi K,Moore CM,Mizuno Y,Katsumata Y

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Driving while intoxicated (DWI) legislation requires proving the critical breath alcohol concentration (BrAC) at the time of driving. With time delayed analysis, retrograde extrapolation is occasionally employed but has several uncertainties associated with it. The present study attempts to address whether subjects ac...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Gullberg RG,McElroy AJ

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a method for obtaining specific and reproducible deoxyribonuclease I (DNase I) typing from liquid semen. Isoelectric focusing of the enzymes on polyacrylamide gel (IEF-PAGE, pH 3.5-5) was accomplished using a 0.5-mm thick gel. The separated isozymes were visualized by a new activity staining method, dried ...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Sawazaki K,Yasuda T,Nadano D,Tenjo E,Iida R,Takeshita H,Kishi K

更新日期：1992-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined histologically the meninges adherent to traumatic lesions of a patient with brain death sustained for 101 days and observed both early and late reactions of wound healing at the same site of the dura mater. Some parts of the dura mater were thick and histological examinations revealed formation of new vess...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Ito Y,Kimura H

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The authors describe a technique for the gross examination of postmortem eyes of children who are suspected to have been the victims of deliberate trauma. By removing the anterior segment (cornea, iris, lens and pars plicata of the ciliary body) en bloc by a coronal incision through the pars plana just anterior to the...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Gilliland MG,Folberg R

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Existing works on pellet dispersion ballistics are confined to some data-based models derived from statistical analysis of observed patterns on targets but the underlying process causing the dispersion lacks due attention. The present article delves into the relatively unexplored areas of dispersion phenomena, and att...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Nag NK,Sinha P

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A description is given of the availability and quality of drugs seized in the Danish illicit drug market during the eighties. Cannabis was the most prevalent illegal drug throughout the decade. Seizures of heroin predominated among the 'hard' illegal drugs until 1987 but during the late eighties a significant increase...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Kaa E

更新日期：1992-07-01 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 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：: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 describe an experiment to investigate the potential effectiveness of an international DNA database for linking unsolved crimes using the data from a collaborative exercise among members of the European DNA Profiling Group. We show that effective retrieval of unknown samples will be feasible even from large database...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Evett IW,Scranage J,Pinchin R

更新日期：1992-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Postmortem biochemical indices may provide a useful adjunct to morphological studies in the identification of antemortem brain insult. We studied 34 routine medico-legal cases categorising them into one of four diagnostic groups. There were 11 cases of head trauma, 7 of 'hypoxia' (3 hangings and 4 carbon monoxide or d...

journal_title：Forensic science international

authors： Osuna E,Perez-Carceles MD,Luna A,Pounder DJ

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00