Introduction Poisoning ofwildlife is a wide spread and major investigational, problem for wildlife law enforcement officers. Protected wildlife killed through pesticide misuse or environmental contamination is just as dead as if they were illegally killed with a gun. The impact on the population may, in fact, be greater because of secondary and even tertiary poisoning or impacts on breeding pot...

Background:The National Crime Records Bureau of India reported a decline in suicide rate from 2010 through 2014. We conducted this study to know whether our hospital data reflects the national data and to know the age and gender specific differences in selecting methods of suicide. Methods: We conducted a retrospective analysis of autopsied cases in Department of Forensi...

The release of endogenous noradrenaline and its deaminated metabolite dihydroxyphenylglycol in the myocardium have been studied in the isolated perfused heart of the rat subjected to three models of energy depletion: ischemia, anoxia, and cyanide intoxication. Anoxia and cyanide intoxication were combined with substrate deficiency at constant perfusion flow. All three energy-depleting procedure...

l:lle or&n and fate of thiocyanate ion in the body have been of interest for more than a century. It has been generally accepted that the ion does not readily permeate normal cell membranes; t.hc distribution of thiocyanate ion in the body is the basis of a method for determination of extracellular fluid volume (1). Despite its assumed extracellular localization, thiocyanate ion is physiologica...

Anoxia of the cortical gray matter of the CNS may result from a variety of pathophysiologic conditions, including systemic hypoxemia, cerebral hypoperfusion, hypoglycemia, and carbon monoxide or cyanide poisoning . Areas of the brain with high metabolic demand or in boundary zones of perfusion are more vulnerable to tissue anoxia than other areas are [1] . The increased susceptibility of the ce...

Cyanide of Potassium poisoning. A Hindu female, aged about 26 years, was brought to the morgue for examination on the 12th June 1905 with the following Police history : ? " The deceased had a quarrel with her husband ; no marks of violence on the body." On examination the lungs were found intensely congested, as also the liver and kidneys. The substance and valves of the heart were normal and b...