• 検索結果がありません。

Depar t ment   of   For ens i c   Medi ci ne

N/A
N/A
Protected

Academic year: 2021

シェア "Depar t ment   of   For ens i c   Medi ci ne"

Copied!
2
0
0

読み込み中.... (全文を見る)

全文

(1)

 

Depar t ment   of   For ens i c   Medi ci ne

 

Kimiharu  Iwadate,Professor   Kenji  Fukui,Assistant  Professor

 

General  Summary

 Our  main  research  projects  in  2007  have  focused  on  sudden  unexpected  infant  death  due  to  milk  aspiration;diagnosis  of  drowning  by  detection  of  specific  DNA  fragments  of  aquatic  bacteria  from  blood  samples;identification  by  DNA  analysis  of  remains  of  the  war  dead;the  objective  evaluation  of  the  limits  of  DNA  typing  based  on  the  intensity  of  ninhydrin  treatment;age  and  skewed  X  chromosome  inactivation  in  autopsy  speci- mens;and quantitative  analyses  of  medicines  and poisonous  substances  in forensic  autopsy  cases.

Research  Activities  Forensic  pathology

 1. Sudden  unexpected  infant  death  due  to  milk  aspiration

 To  examine  differences  in  the  pathological  findings  of  the  lung  between  intravital  and  postmortem  cases  of  milk  aspiration,an  experimental  study  using  a  murine  model  was  carried  out. The  results  of  immunostaining  with  an  anti-humanαlactalbumin  anti- body  and an anti-cow  whey  antibody  indicated that  milk aspirated intravitally  was  distributed  in  the  lungs  more  widely  than  was  milk  injected  postmortem. However,the  difference  between  them  was  not  significant  enough  that  they  could  be  clearly  distin- guished  by  pathological  findings  alone.

2. Diagnosis  of  drowning  by  detection  of  specific  DNA  fragments  of  aquatic  bacteria  In  general,the  diagnosis  of  death  by  drowning  is  based  on  the  detection  of  diatoms  in  organs  other  than  the  lungs. We  speculate  that  bacteria  are  more  useful  markers  than  are  plankton for  the  diagnosis  of  death by drowning. From  the  preserved blood  samples  of  30  cases  of  drowning  in  fresh  water,specific  DNA  fragments  of Aeromonas  sobria,a  most  common  aquatic  bacterium,were  examined  with  the  polymerase  chain  reaction(PCR). The  DNA fragments  of  the  bacterium were  detected  with  first  PCR  or  nested  PCR in  15  of  30  cases.

DNA  analysis

 1. Identification  of  the  remains  of  war  dead  by  means  of  DNA  analysis

 We  identified,by  means  of  DNA analysis,the  remains  of  war  dead  buried  in  the  former  Soviet  Union  as  part  of  a  remains  return  project  of  the  Ministry  of  Health,Labour  and  Welfare. We used  single nucleotide polymorphisms of hypervariable  regions of  mitochondrial  DNA  and  short  tandem  repeats  of  nuclear  DNA  as  genetic  markers. 2. The  objective  evaluation of  the  limits  of  DNA  typing  based on the  intensity  of  ninhydrin  staining

 Shed  epithelial  cells  on  a  sheet  of  paper  were  stained  with  ninhydrin  reagent,and  DNA

 

40

Research Activities 2007  The Jikei University School of Medicine 

(2)

 

typing  was  performed. We  studied  the  relationship  between  the  intensity  of  the  purple  staining  after  ninhydrin  treatment  and  the  limits  of  DNA typing  as  mitochondrial  DNA  polymorphisms,and  we  attempted  to  perform  an  objective  evaluation  to  determine  the  target  of  the  stained  area  for  DNA  analysis.

3. Age  and  skewed  X  chromosome  inactivation  in  autopsy  specimens

 We  studied  the  association  of  age  and  skewed  X  chromosome  inactivation  in  autopsy  specimens from  women. Two  X  chromosomes were differentiated  by  means of  methylation-sensitive  enzymes  and  the  PCR for  the  human  androgen  receptor  gene. A  weak  correlation  was  found  between  age  and  the  frequency  of  skewed  X  chromosome  inactivation,and  we  attempted  to  apply  this  finding  to  forensic  age  estimation.

Forensic  toxicology

 1. Quantitative  analyses  of  medicines  and  poisonous  substances

 Medicines  and  poisonous  substances(abused  drugs,alcohol,carbon  monoxide,cyanide, hydrogen sulfide,and agricultural  chemicals)suspected to have  caused deaths  were  quantitatively  analyzed  with  gas  chromatography, gas  chromatography/mass  spectrometry,and  spectrum  photometry  in  specimens  obtained  at  autopsy.

Publications

 

Takatsu  A,Shigeta  A,Sakai    K,Abe  S.Risk factors,diagnosis  and  prevention  of sudden  unexpected  infant death.Leg  Med 2007;9:

7682.

Sakai  K,Shigeta  A,Abe  S,Takatsu  A.An  autopsy  case  of  incarcerated  umbilical  hernia  in  an  adult(in  Japanese).Hoibyori 2007;13:79 82.

Inoue  K,Tanii  H,Kaiya H,Abe S,Nishimura  Y,Masaki  M ,Okazaki  Y,Nata  M (Mie  Univ), Fukunaga T (Tokyo Med Exami  nerʼs  Off).The correlation  between  unemployment  and suicide  rates  in Japan between 1978 and 2004.Legal  Med 2007;9:13942.

Inoue  K,Tanii  H,Abe  S,Kaiya  H,Okazaki  Y,

Nata M (Mie Univ),Fukunaga T (  Tokyo Med Examinerʼs  Off).Suicidal  tendencies  among  the  elderly  in Mie Prefecture,Japan,between 1996  and  2002.Legal  Med 2007;9:1348.

Inoue K,Tanii  H,Nishimura Y,Okazaki  Y, Fukunaga  T (Tokyo  Med  Examinerʼs  Off),Abe  S, Yokoyama C,Kaiya  H,Nata  M (Mie  Univ). The  correlation  between   rates  of  unemployment and  the suicide rate in Mie Prefecture,Japan.

Am  J  Forensic  Med Pathol 2007;28:36970.

Inoue  K,Tanii  H,Abe  S,Kaiya  H,Okazaki  Y, Nata M (Mie Univ),Fukunaga T (Tokyo Med  Examinerʼs  Off).The  tendency  of  suicide  among the  elderly  in Mie Prefecture,Japan.J  Forensic  Leg Med 2008;15:65.

41 Research Activities 2007  The Jikei University School of Medicine 

参照

関連したドキュメント

In the literature it is usually studied in one of several different contexts, for example in the game of Wythoff Nim, in connection with Beatty sequences and with so-called

To capture the variation of effective control reproduction number (R c (t)), the control process are divided into three periods, the average of R c (t) are calculated for each stage

Since (in both models) I X is defined in terms of the large deviation rate function I T (t) for the hitting times T n /n , this is related to the fact that inf t I T (t) = 0 for

R., O’Regan, D., Oscillation Theory of Second Order Linear, Half-Linear, Superlinear and Sublinear Dynamic Equations, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht–Boston–London, 2002..

S49119 Style Classic Flexor Grade 7.0 Fixation Manual Weight 215g Size range 35 - 52 TECHNOLOGY-HIGHLIGHTS. •

Abstract: The existence and uniqueness of local and global solutions for the Kirchhoff–Carrier nonlinear model for the vibrations of elastic strings in noncylindrical domains

のようにすべきだと考えていますか。 やっと開通します。長野、太田地区方面  

In [13], some topological properties of solutions set for (FOSPD) problem in the convex case are established, and in [15], the compactness of the solutions set is obtained in