ReviewInternational journal of legal medicine2020
Evaluation and review of ways to differentiate sources of ethanol in postmortem blood.
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- Phosphatidylethanol in post-mortem blood: A comparative study of blood matrices and its stability at routine storage conditions.Journal of forensic sciences · 2025Article
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- Alcohol and toxicological factors influencing fatal falls from height in the Greater Tokyo Area: a retrospective study.International journal of legal medicine · 2024Article
- Ethanol and Higher Alcohols' Production in Fungal and Bacterial Laboratory Cultures and Significance for Forensic Samples.Microorganisms · 2024Article
- Forensic Aspects of a Fatal Intoxication Involving Acetaminophen, Citalopram and Trazodone: A Case Report.Toxics · 2022Article
- Modeling Postmortem Ethanol Production/Insights into the Origin of Higher Alcohols.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Review
- Ethyl glucuronide and ethyl sulfate: a review of their roles in forensic toxicology analysis of alcohol postmortem.Forensic toxicology · 2022Review
- Modeling microbial ethanol production by S. aureus, K. pneumoniae, and E. faecalis under aerobic/anaerobic conditions - applicability to laboratory cultures and real postmortem cases.International journal of legal medicine · 2021Article
- Comments on "Evaluation and review of ways to differentiate sources of ethanol in post-mortem blood".International journal of legal medicine · 2021Article
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Abstract
Accurate determination of a person's blood alcohol concentration (BAC) is an important task in forensic toxicology laboratories because of the existence of statutory limits for driving a motor vehicle and workplace alcohol testing regulations. However, making a correct interpretation of the BAC determined in postmortem (PM) specimens is complicated, owing to the possibility that ethanol was produced in the body after death by the action of various micro-organisms (e.g., Candida species) and fermentation processes. This article reviews various ways to establish the source of ethanol in PM blood, including collection and analysis of alternative specimens (e.g., bile, vitreous humor (VH), and bladder urine), the identification of non-oxidative metabolites of ethanol, ethyl glucuronide (EtG) and ethyl sulfate (EtS), the urinary metabolites of serotonin (5-HTOL/5-HIAA), and identification of n-propanol and n-butanol in blood, which are known putrefaction products. Practical utility of the various biomarkers including specificity and stability is discussed.
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