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Foreword
The Japanese and German Societies of Legal Medicine have cooperatively organized the International Symposium ADVANCES IN LEGAL MEDICINE (ISALM) over the past 20 years. This Symposium aims to continue ...
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Hitoshi Maeda,
Noriaki Ikeda,
Yoshiaki Hashimoto,
Yasuhiro Ueno,
Toshikazu Kondo
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S1-S3
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Qualified “full service” in post-mortem medicine
12 March 2009
Abstract: New models and pathways are developed to create a “full service” in post-mortem medicine. Activities and services include post-mortem cell and tissue explantation for banking and transplanta...
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Klaus Püschel
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S4-S5
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Legal medicine and the death inquiry system in Japan: A comparative study
19 March 2009
Abstract: In Japan, there are two different systems of death investigation: criminal inspection and judicial autopsy from a criminal justice standpoint and, from a public health standpoint, administra...
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Tatsuya Fujimiya
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S6-S8
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The role of international journals in legal/forensic medicine
09 March 2009
Abstract: The foremost task for scientific journals is the dissemination of knowledge and advancement of new ideas and theories, as science does not exist until it has been published. The first prereq...
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Pekka Saukko
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S9-S12
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Awareness in nine countries: A public health approach to suicide prevention
12 March 2009
Abstract: Suicide is an important public health problem, increasing worldwide, and on a yearly basis accounting for the death of more than one million people, with estimates as high as 10–20 times tha...
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Christina W. Hoven,
Danuta Wasserman,
Camilla Wasserman,
Donald J. Mandell
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S13-S17
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Suicide and its prevention in Japan
09 March 2009
Abstract: Japan is one of the countries with high suicide rate. In this article, number and rate of suicide, comparison between countries, causes of death, occupations of the people who commit suicide...
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Makiko Kaga,
Tadashi Takeshima,
Toshihiko Matsumoto
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S18-S21
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Forensic relevance of glucuronidation in phase-II-metabolism of alcohols and drugs
09 March 2009
Abstract: Forensic toxicology means detecting toxic or pharmacologically active substances in body fluids and organs and the evaluation and judgement of the respective results. In the legal judgement,...
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Herbert Kaeferstein
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S22-S26
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Is postmortem biochemistry really useful? Why is it not widely used in forensic pathology?
02 April 2009
Abstract: Medico legal autopsy has a basic objective to reconstruct as accurately as possible the circumstances of death to solve a judicial problem, is a process of collection of evidences from the c...
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A. Luna
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S27-S30
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Diagnostic problems with functional causes of death: Analytical approaches and procedures
09 March 2009
Abstract: Post mortem biochemical analyses may assist to confirm “functional causes of death” with non-specific morphological changes. Examinations should always be carried out on different body fluid...
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Gerhard Kernbach-Wighton
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S31-S35
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Sudden death, especially in infancy – improvement of diagnoses by biochemistry, immunohistochemistry and molecular pathology
12 March 2009
Abstract: One of the problems in the diagnosis of the cause of death in cases of sudden death, especially in infancy, is the rapidity of death and that the morphological correlates of the underlying d...
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Burkhard Madea
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S36-S42
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Postmortem quantitative mRNA analyses of death investigation in forensic pathology: An overview and prospects
09 March 2009
Abstract: To analyze pathophysiological dynamics of the death process using mRNA quantification, previous studies investigated pulmonary surfactant-associated protein (SP-A), as well as hypoxia-induci...
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Dong Zhao,
Takaki Ishikawa,
Li Quan,
Tomomi Michiue,
Bao-Li Zhu,
Hitoshi Maeda
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S43-S45
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Significance of postmortem biochemistry in determining the cause of death
09 March 2009
Abstract: There have been an abundance of challenging publications on biochemical procedures for investigating death. However, such procedures do not appear to have been effectively incorporated in ro...
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Hitoshi Maeda,
Bao-Li Zhu,
Takaki Ishikawa,
Li Quan,
Tomomi Michiue
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S46-S49
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Routine techniques in forensic neuropathology as demonstrated by gunshot injury to the head
12 March 2009
Abstract: It will be vital to the practical activity of every forensic and/or clinical pathologist to be able to answer three questions regarding the reconstruction of a lethal event: the type and cau...
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Manfred Oehmichen,
Christoph Meissner
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S50-S53
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Apoptosis and gene expression after TBI
12 March 2009
Abstract: Proper CNS function depends on concerted expression of thousands of genes in a controlled and timely manner. Traumatic brain injury (TBI) in humans results in neuronal death and neurological...
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Jan Dressler,
Raghu Vemuganti
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S54-S55
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Pathomorphological staging of subdural hemorrhages: Statistical analysis of posttraumatic histomorphological alterations
19 March 2009
Abstract: We examined 10 histomorphological alterations of 222 cases of subdural hemorrhages following mechanical closed brain injury (MBI) to determine the posttraumatic interval (PTI). These morphol...
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Till Walter,
Christoph Meissner,
Manfred Oehmichen
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S56-S62
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Detection of methamphetamine neurotoxicity in forensic autopsy cases
09 March 2009
Abstract: Methamphetamine (METH) is a powerful stimulant drug of abuse with potent addictive and neurotoxic properties. METH neurotoxicity is characterized by the long-term depletion of striatal monoa...
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Osamu Kitamura
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S63-S65
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Differential diagnosis between traumatic and nontraumatic rupture of the intracranial vertebral artery in medicolegal autopsy
03 April 2009
Abstract: We attempted to establish histopathological identification between traumatic rupture and nontraumatic arterial dissection of the intracranial vertebral artery (IVA) resulting in subarachnoid...
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Ayako Ro,
Norimasa Kageyama,
Akihiro Takatsu,
Tatsushige Fukunaga
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S66-S70
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Forensic investigation of medical treatment related deaths
12 March 2009
Abstract: Patients suffer preventable harm from their medical treatment. The traditional approaches to investigating medical treatment related deaths are the ‘hospital mortality audit’ and legal or co...
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Joseph E. Ibrahim,
David L. Ranson,
Adam O’Brien,
Amanda Charles,
Carmel Young
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S71-S75
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Medico-legal autopsies as a source of information to improve patient safety
16 March 2009
Abstract: Clear data on the epidemiology of medical malpractice are missing, at least for Germany. Especially data on the frequency of malpractice claims in penal and civil law are not available. Howe...
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Burkhard Madea
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S76-S79
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The role of an independent and interdisciplinary assessment of research studies with human subjects in Europe and worldwide
09 March 2009
Abstract: The author reviews the history of human experimentation beginning as documented by holes in human sculls 6000years before, addressing the first controlled experiments by James Lind and Edwar...
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Christian Rittner
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S80-S81
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An international comparative overview on the rehabilitation of offenders and effective measures for the prevention of recidivism
09 March 2009
Abstract: The prevention of recidivism has long been a central issue in criminal justice policy. This is justified because an offender who repeatedly commits crime inflicts far greater damage on socie...
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Kei Someda
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S82-S85
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Management of dead and missing: Aftermath tsunami in Galle
09 March 2009
Abstract: Tsunami on 26th December 2004 which affected the entire costal belt of Sri Lanka caused over 30,000 deaths and about 8000 disappearances. The Forensic Unit of the Karapitiya Teaching Hospita...
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Ruwanpura P. Rohan,
Mahinda Hettiarachchi,
Muditha Vidanapathirana,
Shelton Perera
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S86-S88
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Social problems in disaster victim identification following the 2006 Pangandaran tsunami
02 March 2009
Abstract: Disasters, both natural and man-made, are inevitable. Interpol and the ICRC have produced Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) Guidelines to assist examiners in the identification of disaste...
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Berlian I. Fitrasanti,
Yoni F. Syukriani
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S89-S91
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Socio-economic factors and suicide rates in European Union countries
02 March 2009
Abstract: Are socio-economic factors valid determinants of suicide? The modern sociological theory of suicide is based on Durkheim’s studies. In addition to these fundamental social determinants, mode...
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Fabio Ferretti,
Anna Coluccia
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S92-S94
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Biostatistical study of suicide features in Mures County (Romania)
12 March 2009
Abstract: Mures County (580,000 inhabitants) has constantly higher yearly suicide rates (23–32%ooo) compared to Romania’s national average (12–14%ooo). We performed a prospective study with the aim to...
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Harald Jung,
Dumitru Bucur Matei,
Laszlo Hecser
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S95-S97
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Driving under the influence of drugs and alcohol in Salzburg and Upper Austria during the years 2003–2007
12 March 2009
Abstract: Until 2002 in Austria a blood sample could not be drawn due to regulations stipulated by the Austrian constitution. During the years 2003–2007 alcohol, pharmaceuticals and illicit drugs were...
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Thomas Keller,
Andrea Keller,
Edith Tutsch-Bauer,
Fabio Monticelli
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S98-S99
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A series of hospital homicides
02 March 2009
Abstract: Patient deaths in hospitals due to medical staff are very rare. In the autumn of 2006, preliminary proceedings were initiated against a nurse on account of an overdose of medication leading ...
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Edwin Ehrlich,
Benno Riesselmann,
Michael Tsokos
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S100-S102
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Forensic DNA typing in China
12 March 2009
Abstract: In the field of forensic genetics, essential developmental impulses come from the advances of the molecular biology and human genome projects. This paper overviews existing technologies for ...
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Y.P. Hou
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S103-S105
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Real-time PCR method for identification of Asian populations in forensic casework
16 March 2009
Abstract: The priorities for mass disaster victim identification are rapid investigation turn-around time and low cost. We describe a DNA typing procedure to selectively identify members of Asian popu...
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Tomoharu Tokutomi,
Yuzo Takada,
Takako Murayama,
Masahiro Mukaida,
Jun Kanetake
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S106-S108
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The Y-chromosomal STRs DYS481, DYS570, DYS576 and DYS643
02 March 2009
Abstract: The Y-STRs DYS481, DYS570, DYS576, and DYS643 were investigated in a West Saxonian population sample, which have been previously typed with the well known minimal or extended haplotype of Y-...
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Maria Geppert,
Jeanett Edelmann,
Ruediger Lessig
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S109-S110
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Automated SNPs typing system based on the Invader assay
12 March 2009
Abstract: Typing of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) has advantages in forensic DNA identification because SNPs are abundant in genomic DNA and are easily detected using an automated high-throug...
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Hiroaki Nakahara,
Naoya Hosono,
Tetsushi Kitayama,
Kazumasa Sekiguchi,
Michiaki Kubo,
Atsushi Takahashi,
Yusuke Nakamura,
Yoshiaki Yamano,
Kazushige Kai
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S111-S114
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Sequence analysis for HV I region of mitochondrial DNA using WGA (Whole Genome Amplification) method
12 March 2009
Abstract: The hypervariable (HV) region in mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) has been studied for forensic identification, DNA analysis of mother–child relationship and comparison between ethnic groups. Meanw...
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Akina Nara,
Shinji Harihara,
Kimiharu Iwadate,
Koichi Uemura
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S115-S118
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Postmortem molecular analysis for fatal arrhythmogenic disease in sudden unexplained death
04 March 2009
Abstract: Congenital long QT syndrome (LQTS) and catecholaminergic polymorphic ventricular tachycardia (CPVT) are known to be involved in some sudden unexplained death (SUD) cases. We examined possibl...
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Hajime Nishio,
Koichi Suzuki
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S119-S120
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Otitis media observed in unexpected natural death of infants
19 March 2009
Abstract: Intracranial complications due to otitis media such as brain abscess and leptomeningitis are well known as a cause of death. In recent years, encountering those serious intracranial complica...
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Yoshiaki Hashimoto,
Junichi Furumiya
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S121-S123
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Immunohistochemical and molecular-pathological diagnosis of myocarditis in cases of suspected sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) – A multicenter study
12 March 2009
Abstract: Virus-induced myocarditis is a common disease even in infants and children, but diagnosis can be difficult according to the Dallas-criteria, which have been criticised as being too unreliabl...
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Reinhard Dettmeyer,
Anne Baasner,
Claudia Haag,
Simone Bruch,
Marc Schlamann
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S124-S127
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How rapidly does cerebral swelling follow trauma? Observations using an animal model and possible implications in infancy
20 March 2009
Abstract: To study the speed of development of cerebral edema in an animal model, five 2-year-old male anesthetized Merino sheep were impacted in the left temporal region by a humane stunner. Followin...
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Roger W. Byard,
Kartik D. Bhatia,
Peter L. Reilly,
Robert Vink
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S128-S131
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Medical malpractice charges in Germany – A survey
09 March 2009
Abstract: Since decades, studies concerning medical malpractice charges in Germany were published, written by forensic pathologists and regarding lethal courses and the question of causality. Previous...
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Reinhard Dettmeyer,
Johanna Preuss
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S132-S134
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Why can Taiwan utilize criminal law to discipline physicians?
02 March 2009
Abstract: Modern medicine was first introduced into Taiwan by missionary hospitals in 1865. However, Japanese governors following Japan’s medical reform applied modern medicine as the standard of prac...
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Jiin Ger
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S135-S137
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Refusal of blood by Jehovah’s Witnesses and the patient’s right to self-determination
09 March 2009
Abstract: Jehovah’s Witnesses love life and do whatever is reasonable in order to prolong it. Hence, they seek quality health care and accept the vast majority of medical treatments. However, for Bibl...
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Tomonori Ariga
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S138-S140
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Post-mortem tissue donation at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Hamburg: Talking to the next of kin guidelines and first experiences
01 May 2009
Abstract: While building up a tissue donation program at the Institute of Legal Medicine in Hamburg we had to organize the contact to the deceased’s close relatives and to develop guidelines for an ap...
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B. Wulff,
A.S. Schroeder,
C. Braun,
T. Karbe,
A. Heinemann,
K. Pueschel
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S141-S142
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Leave Methamphetamine to be alive – Part II
06 April 2009
Abstract: Series of experiments have been completed with Methamphetamine (MA). Some were with the higher, medium or lower duration of MA administration and some were with acute or chronic doses. Whate...
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Mohammed Nasimul Islam,
Jesmine Khan,
Hasnan Jaafar
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S143-S146
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Histopathological studies of cardiac lesions after long term administration of Methamphetamine in high dosage – Part II
03 April 2009
Abstract: A small amount of Methamphetamine (MA) can produce behavioural changes such as euphoria, increased alertness, paranoia, decreased appetite and increased physical activity. In cardiovascular ...
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Mohammed Nasimul Islam,
Khan Jesmine,
Arthur Kong Sn Molh,
Jaafar Hasnan
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S147-S150
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Time course of housekeeping gene expression changes in diffuse alveolar damage induced by hyperoxia exposure in mice
09 March 2009
Abstract: We have found diffuse alveolar damage (DAD) has taken place in some patients under mechanical ventilation with high-inspired oxygen concentrations. To clarify the molecular pathophysiology o...
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Ichiroh Shimada,
Kazuhiro Matsui,
Reiko Iida,
Etsuko Tsubota,
Takasumi Matsuki
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S151-S154
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Increased expressions and activations of apoptosis-related factors in cell signaling during incised skin wound healing in mice: A preliminary study for forensic wound age estimation
12 March 2009
Abstract: Recent studies have demonstrated that apoptosis plays a pivotal role during skin wound healing and apoptosis-related factors in cell signaling regulate a variety of cellular function. In thi...
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Rui Zhao,
Da-Wei Guan,
Wei Zhang,
Yu Du,
Chang-Yan Xiong,
Bao-Li Zhu,
Jian-Jun Zhang
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S155-S160
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Immunohistochemical distribution of basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) in medicolegal autopsy
04 March 2009
Abstract: Basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF) is a highly conserved and ubiquitously distributed mitogen, and much is known at the molecular level. However the available information about in vivo di...
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Qi Wang,
Takaki Ishikawa,
Li Quan,
Dong Zhao,
Dong-Ri Li,
Tomomi Michiue,
Jian-Hua Chen,
Bao-Li Zhu,
Hitoshi Maeda
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S161-S164
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A study of monoamine neuronal systems of schizophrenic patients: Using forensic autopsy brains
12 March 2009
Abstract: Studies on autopsy brains of mental illnesses are essential for psychiatric research. Brain materials from forensic autopsy cases have been valuable research resource. We introduced some cha...
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Keiko Ikemoto,
Katsuji Nishi,
Yasuto Kunii,
Akira Wada,
Qiaohui Yang,
Izumi Takase,
Akiyoshi Nishimura,
Shin-ichi Niwa
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S165-S167
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Quantitative analysis of single-stranded DNA immunoreactivity as a marker of neuronal apoptosis in hippocampus with regard to the causes of death in medicolegal autopsy
12 March 2009
Abstract: The present study immunohistochemically investigated single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) as a marker of DNA injury during apoptosis and programmed cell death to evaluate neuronal damage in the hippo...
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Tomomi Michiue,
Li Quan,
Takaki Ishikawa,
Bao-Li Zhu,
Hitoshi Maeda
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S168-S170
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Two patterns of β-amyloid precursor protein (APP) immunoreactivity in cases of blunt head injury
02 March 2009
Abstract: Immunostaining for β-amyloid precursor protein (APP) is widely recognized as an effective tool for detecting diffuse traumatic axonal injury (TAI). APP selectively labels injured axons, such...
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Takahito Hayashi,
Kazutoshi Ago,
Mihoko Ago,
Mamoru Ogata
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S171-S173
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Unassisted childbirth or homicide – Different appraisals of severe injuries in a newborn
04 March 2009
Abstract: A case of a 24-year-old woman who gave birth to a mature newborn is reported. Many injuries at the head, neck and shoulders, back, mouth and throat which at least partly indicated unassisted...
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Iris Gehb,
Christian Rittner,
Klaus Püschel
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S174-S175
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Study on changes of MMP-3 expression after brain contusion in rats
31 March 2009
Abstract: To investigate the mechanism and to explore the applicability of MMP-3 (matrix metalloproteinase-3) to determine the age of brain contusion, expression of MMP-3 was studied by immunochemistr...
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Ru-Bo Li,
Xiao-Chong Guo,
Hong-Xia Liang,
Fu-Yuan Wang,
Bao-Li Zhu
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S176-S179
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Significance of fatal head injuries associated with subependymal hemorrhage at the anterior horns of lateral ventricles
03 April 2009
Abstract: We hypothesize the following items based on 41 autopsy cases with or without head injuries especially on subependymal injuries at the anterior horns of the lateral cerebral ventricles. The s...
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Naohito Kuroda,
Sohtaro Mimasaka,
Takeshi Kita,
Akio Tani
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S180-S181
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A pilot study on assessment of racial affinity of Sri Lankan population using discriminant function statistics and a few established morphological racial traits
04 March 2009
Abstract: Determination of racial affinity was not considered in investigations of unidentified bones in Sri Lanka until recently. Post-Tsunami exhumation of mass graves to identify Japanese and Europ...
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Priayanjith Perera,
A. Pathmeswaran
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S182-S185
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Estimating age by assessing the ossification degree of cranial sutures with the aid of Flat-Panel-CT
04 March 2009
Abstract: Estimating age from the skeletons of adults is difficult. The accuracy decreases for old age. Ossification of the neurocranial sutures has been used as an age characteristic since Broca’s ti...
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Sebastian Harth,
Martin Obert,
Frank Ramsthaler,
Christina Reuß,
Horst Traupe,
Marcel A. Verhoff
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S186-S189
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Morphological examination of ear: A study of an Indian population
01 May 2009
Abstract: The uniqueness of human ear and hence its utility for identification of individuals has been postulated. There is however, no published data that establishes each individual’s ear is differe...
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P.K. Chattopadhyay,
Shashi Bhatia
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S190-S193
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A new system for forensic physicians in Taiwan
09 March 2009
Abstract: Forensic physicians play an important role in legal justice. Taiwan has a population of 23 million. It has had a serious shortage of forensic physicians for more than half a century. This ha...
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Ching-Hwa Chiu,
Tsung-Li Kuo,
Yao-Chang Chen,
Chuan-Ping Yang
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S194-S195
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Application of SNPs in forensic casework: Identification of pathological and autoptical specimens due to sample mix-up
16 March 2009
Abstract: The analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) together with conventional short tandem repeat (STR) and mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) typing provide a forensic genetic approach for the i...
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Yuzo Takada,
Tomoharu Tokutomi,
Jun Kanetake,
Masahiro Mukaida
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S196-S197
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Y-STR haplotypes and the genetic structure from eight Chinese ethnic populations
06 April 2009
Abstract: To investigate the genetic structure of 8 Chinese ethnic populations, haplotype data of 9 short tandem repeats (STR) loci on non-recombining region of the Y chromosome (NRY) from 1816 indivi...
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Zhang Tian-Xiao,
Yang Li,
Li Sheng-Bin
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S198-S200
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HGD-Chn: The Database of Genome Diversity and Variation for Chinese Populations
02 April 2009
Abstract: The Database of Genome Diversity and Variation for Chinese Populations is toward a more efficient utilization and sharing of the valuable yet diminishing genetic resources in China (includin...
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Gui Hong-Sheng,
Zhou Peng,
Yang Cheng-Bo,
Li Sheng-Bin
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S201-S202
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Allele frequency of CODIS 13 in Indonesian population
04 March 2009
Abstract: Since the first application of DNA technology in 1985 in forensic cases, and the acceptance of this technology in 1988 at court, the DNA typing is widely used in personal identification, par...
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Evi Untoro,
Djaja Surya Atmadja,
Chang-En Pu,
Fang-Chi Wu
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S203-S205
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