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Copycatting the smell of death: Deciphering the role of cadaveric scent components used by...
Human remains detection dogs (HRDD) are commonly used by law enforcement agencies to search for cadavers. Biological material is typically used as a training stimulus, also called aids, to train dogs to recognize the smell of cadavers. While HRDD training approaches have received...
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Modification of the Marmarou and Foda model of diffuse axonal injury (DAI) improves...
More than two decades ago, Marmarou published a valid model for producing diffuse axonal injury (DAI) in rats. Since then, both mild and severe injuries have been obtained by researchers using the original method and a weight of 450 g. However, the diffuse brain injuries produced...
Interpreting perimortem blast trauma from skeletal remains: Complications and...
Blast trauma results from highly variable events that can lead to similar effects in the skeleton. Clinical literature, which largely focuses on soft tissue, provides limited efficacy for interpreting fully skeletonized cases. Interpretation of skeletal blast trauma is hampered b...
Ballistic impact of hollow‐point ammunition on porcine bone
Identifying failure mechanisms in skeletal tissue allows a deeper understanding of the effects of specific projectile impacts on bone. While ballistic trauma in flat bones is largely researched, knowledge of how long bones react to gunshot impacts is limited in the literature. Th...
Detection of methamphetamine in mouse femurs exposed to high temperature
Bone samples are valuable for examining the cause of death and circumstance leading up to death when body fluids are not available for forensic toxicological analysis. Examined were heat‐induced changes in methamphetamine and amphetamine concentrations in femurs removed from meth...
2,4,6‐Tri(2′‐pyridyl)‐1,3,5‐triazine for determination of iron(II), Iron(III), and total...
When iron‐based tools, such as knives or guns, are held, traces of iron can transfer to the skin. However, no previous studies have been published regarding the effect of the elapsed contact time on the transfer of iron species with different valences to the palm. Compared with 3...
Detection of human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) in fabric urine stains older than five...
Human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) is used in clinical medicine as a particularly important indicator to determine pregnancy. In this study, it was necessary to determine whether the urine spots on car seat fabric from a murder 5 years previously were from a pregnant woman. The H...
Fatal rupture of hepatic adenomatosis: Autopsy case and review of the literature
Hepatic adenomatosis is a rare disease consisting of multiple adenomas in otherwise‐normal liver parenchyma. Though the discovery of this entity goes back several years, its diagnosis is still challenging in terms of its definition and pathophysiology. Clinically, patients may be...
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