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Quantitative and qualitative analysis of DNA extracted from postmortem muscle tissues
1990
DNA extracted from 33 postmortem muscle specimens was analyzed using MZ 1.3, a hypervariable minisatellite probe, as well as locus-specific minisatellite probes (g3, MS1 and MS43). After storage at -25 degrees C for 10 months, DNA from all the samples was partially (approximately 21% of total DNA) degraded even when autopsy was performed 1 day postmortem. However, more than 90% of DNA samples up to at least 3 days postmortem were suitable to obtain good restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) patterns. When small strips of specimen were stored for 8 days at room temperature in moist chambers, approximately 42% of total DNA was degraded. Only 30% of these DNA samples still showed goo…
Forensic microbiology applications: A systematic review.
2019
Abstract According to the Human Microbiome Project (HMP), a healthy human body contains ten times more microbes than human cells. Microbial communities colonize different organs of the body, playing fundamental roles both in human health and disease. Despite the vast scientific knowledge of the role of microbial communities in a living body, little is known at present about microbial changes occurring after death, thus leading many authors to investigate the composition of the thanatomicrobiome and its potential applications in the forensic field. The aim of the following review is to provide a general overview of the advances of postmortem microbiology research, mainly focusing on the role…
Expression of PSA-NCAM and synaptic proteins in the amygdala of psychiatric disorder patients.
2011
Neuroimaging has revealed structural abnormalities in the amygdala of different psychiatric disorders. The polysialylated neural cell adhesion molecule (PSA-NCAM), a molecule related to neuronal structural plasticity, which expression is altered in schizophrenia, major depression and in animal models of these disorders, may participate in these changes. However, PSA-NCAM has not been studied in the human amygdala. To know whether its expression and that of presynaptic markers, was affected in psychiatric disorders, we have analyzed post-mortem sections from the Stanley Neuropathology Consortium, which includes controls, schizophrenia, bipolar and major depression patients. PSA-NCAM was expr…
Cardiac rupture caused by traffic accident: Case reports and a literature review.
2018
The commonest cause of blunt cardiac injuries is from traffic accidents followed by violent falls, sport activities, accidents or a fight but rupture of the heart is rare and lethal. The precise incidence of cardiac injury after a blunt chest trauma is unknown as rates vary greatly in the literature from between 7% and 76% of cases. Autopsy studies have shown that the right ventricle is the most frequently ruptured, followed by the left ventricle, right atrium, intraventricular septum, left atrium and interatrial septum with decreasing frequency. Post-mortem imaging is a rapidly advancing field of post-mortem investigations of trauma victims. The available literature dealing with the compa…
Il caso Webern. Ricostruzione di un delitto
2021
La sera del 15 settembre 1945, a guerra ormai conclusa, il compositore Anton Webern fu assassinato da un cuoco dell'esercito americano. Le circostanze del delitto sono rimaste in parte senza spiegazione e proiettano un'ombra sulla biografia di Webern nel suo complesso. Il libro traccia un profilo biografico del compositore, con particolare riferimento agli ultimi anni della sua vita e mistero della sua morte. On the evening of September 15, 1945, when the war was over, the composer Anton Webern was assassinated by a cook of the American occupation army. The circumstances of the crime remain in some respects unsolved and cast a shadow over Webern's biography as a whole. The book is a portrai…
Análisis semiótico y discursivo de las películas Dios y el Diablo en la Tierra del Sol y Antonio das Mortes, de Glauber Rocha
2017
Resumen: Glauber Rocha propone dos películas que reflexionan sobre la distribución social y el sistema social regente en Brasil, si bien los orígenes de las películas no son similares. Las concepciones estéticas son distintas, las relaciones entre el cangaço (movimiento revolucionario del nordeste de Brasil), mesianismo y el personaje Antonio das Mortes son abordadas en diferentes momentos sociales e históricos. La película Dios y el Diablo en la tierra del sol, de 1964, se integra en el contexto de la estética del hambre, y es signo del instrumento revolucionario, vanguardista de una visión cinematográfica anterior al golpe militar. En cambio, la película Antonio das Mortes, de 1969, nace …
La morte e i morti nelle società euromediterranee
2015
Il volume riflette sugli atteggiamenti storicamente assunti dall’uomo rispetto alla morte, sulle rappresentazioni e sulle ideologie correlate, sulle visioni dell’aldilà, sul culto dei defunti, sulle pratiche funerarie e sulle forme di trattamento dei defunti, sui riti connessi al trapasso e sulle cerimonie e le credenze legate al "ritorno dei morti".
How Many Secret Details Could a Systematic Multi-Analytical Study Reveal About the Mysterious Fresco Trionfo della Morte?
2019
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Useless and limits of Postmortem CT (PMCT) in a complex case of preterm infant murder
2023
The present case-report empathizes the usefulness of post-mortem computed tomography (PMCT) in the detection of live birth signs in a baby found dead, comparing the results with standard autoptic, histologic and immunohistochemical examinations.The report describes the case of a new-born who was thrown out on the footpath from a window of the fifth floor according to the investigative police, whilst the mother has hidden herself immediately after childbirth.PMCT showed diffusely aerated lung parenchyma with signs of severe lung distress, air in the airways with no fluid inside, and air in the upper gastro-intestinal tract, in absence any resuscitation manoeuvres performed on the baby at del…
Investigation of sterols as potential biomarkers for the detection of pig (S. s. domesticus) decomposition fluid in soils
2012
This study was carried out to evaluate the potential of using cholesterol and coprostanol, as indicators for the detection of decomposition fluid of buried pigs (S. s. domesticus) in soils. In May 2007, four pig carcasses (~35. kg) were buried in shallow graves (~40. cm depth) at the University of Ontario Institute of Technology in Canada. Two pigs were exhumed after three months (Pig 1, Pig 2) and six months (Pig 3, Pig 4) post burial. Soil samples were collected beneath the pig carcasses (~40. cm depth) and from grave walls (~15-20. cm depth) as well as from a parallel control site. Coprostanol and cholesterol were extracted from soils, purified with solid phase extraction (SPE) and analy…