International Journal of Legal Medicine

Editorial

Cocaine and opiate concentrations in hair from subjects in a heroin maintenance program in comparison to a methadone substituted group

Frank Musshoff, Katrin Lachenmeier, Dirk Lichtermann, Burkhard Madea

Hyperthermia combined with ethanol administration induces c-fos expression in the central amygdaloid nucleus of the mouse brain. A possible mechanism of heatstroke under the influence of ethanol intake

Kazuhiko Kibayashi, Ken-ichiro Nakao, Hideki Shojo

A regression model applied to gender-specific ethanol elimination rates from blood and breath measurements in non-alcoholics

A. Dettling, S. Witte, G. Skopp, M. Graw, H. Th. Haffner

Fatal and severe codeine intoxication in 3-year-old twins—interpretation of drug and metabolite concentrations

Nerea Ferreirós, Sebastian Dresen, Maren Hermanns-Clausen, Volker Auwaerter, Annette Thierauf, Christoph Müller, Roland Hentschel, Rainer Trittler, Gisela Skopp, Wolfgang Weinmann

Forensic botany: species identification of botanical trace evidence using a multigene barcoding approach

Gianmarco Ferri, Milena Alù, Beatrice Corradini, Giovanni Beduschi

Evaluation of DXS9902, DXS7132, DXS6809, DXS7133, and DXS7423 in humans and chimpanzees: sequence variation, repeat structure, and nomenclature

Iva Gomes, Rui Pereira, Wolfgang R. Mayr, António Amorim, Angel Carracedo, Leonor Gusmão

Reduced-volume and low-volume typing of Y-chromosomal SNPs to obtain Finnish Y-chromosomal compound haplotypes

Marielle Heinrich, Tina Braun, Timo Sänger, Pekka Saukko, Sabine Lutz-Bonengel, Ulrike Schmidt

Experimental simulation of reentry shots using a skin-gelatine composite model

M. Große Perdekamp, S. Pollak, A. Thierauf, E. Straßburger, M. Hunzinger, B. Vennemann

One person with two DNA profiles: a(nother) case of mosaicism or chimerism

Vincent Castella, Maria del Mar Lesta, Patrice Mangin

An unusual observation of tetragametic chimerism: forensic aspects

S. Verdiani, A. Bonsignore, L. Casarino, G. M. Ferrari, S. C. Zia, F. De Stefano

Sex determination from buccal mucosa scrapes

Tushar Mittal, K. Muralidhar Saralaya, Ajee Kuruvilla, Chandrayya Achary

Suspension fluorescence in situ hybridization (S-FISH) combined with automatic detection and laser microdissection for STR profiling of male cells in male/female mixtures

Mado Vandewoestyne, David Van Hoofstat, Filip Van Nieuwerburgh, Dieter Deforce

In memoriam of Prof. Dr. h.c. mult. Otto Prokop, MD

Gunther Geserick, Michael Tsokos