Creation of the criterion of the cause of death and the fire cause for fire victims, using the quantitative databases

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26460881
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Legal medicine
• Research Institution: Kyushu University
• Principal Investigator: Kudo Keiko 九州大学, 医学研究院, 講師 (10186405)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 焼死体 / 薬毒物スクリーニング / NAGINATA / GC/MS / LC-MS/MS

Outline of Final Research Achievements

We have developed a new NAGINATA-GC/MS screening method that can easily estimate the blood concentrations of volatile hydrocarbons absorbed by combustion of house building materials, gasoline or kerosene. We also developed a reliable and simple determination method of cyanide, thiocyanate and azide in human whole blood, and created the NAGINATA-GC/MS database which can estimate the concentration of the compounds without possessing dangerous poisons as standards. Furthermore, we made a quantitative database of 161 kinds of drugs including hypnotics which are often used in crime purposes, using LC-MS/MS. The databases which we developed have already been used in many forensic laboratories and emergency hospitals, and gives good results for judging the cause of death and the fire cause of the charred body.

Free Research Field

法医中毒学