Transcript medicolegal aspects of blood and other stains

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Blood
 Seminal fluid
 Vaginal discharge
 Saliva
 Faecal stain
 Urine
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-Main
cellular content RBC – Haemoglobin
which possess peroxidase activity
-Haemoglobin and other proteins of blood
has antigenic properties – produces
antibodies when injected into animals
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May establish a link between offence,
offended and offender
 May establish link between offence and
offensive agent
 Fictitious charges by presenting an
animal stain as human
 In poisoning, poison chemically
detected
 Time since death may be estimated by
chemical and enzymatic study
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Whether the stain is actually a blood
stain
• Physical
• Chemical
• Microscopic
• Spectroscopic
• Micro chemical
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Whether the blood stain is of human or
other than human
• Precipitin test
 If human, which blood group
 Sex, source
 Indication as to cause of death
 Whether belong to victim or accused
 Whether bleeding antemortem or
postmortem
 Any disease process
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Vegetable stains
ammonia greenish yellow color
- Bleached by chlorine water
- M/E
vegetable cells and fibers
 Rust stains
- Does not fall off in scale on being
heated
- Positive reaction for iron
- Dissolved in dil. Hcl
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Mineral stains
 Synthetic dye stains
Nitric acid
yellow
strong alkali
original color
 Other stains
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Highly sensitive
 Positive reaction even with faint traces of
blood
 Principal factor – peroxidase activity
liberating nascent oxygen which leads to
colour change
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1.
BENZIDINE TEST
stain extract
benzidine ┼
in
glacial acetic acid
┼
Blue colour
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10 vol
hydogen peroxide
2.
KASTLE MAYER TEST
- Phenolphthalein in alkaline medium
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Pink colour
3.
ORTHOTOLIDINE TEST
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(4% orthotolidine in ethyl alcohol)+ glacial
acetic acid + H2O2
Green colour
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4.
5.
LEUCHOMALACHITE GREEN TEST
Bluish green colour
LUMINAL TEST
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RBC’s- confirmatory
 Species
 Sex
 Disease
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HAEMIN CRYSTAL TEST/ TEICHMAN’S TEST
Sod. Chloride + strain extract + glacial
acetic acid
- Yellowish brown rhombic crystals of haemin
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HAEMOCHROMOGEN CRYSTAL/
TAKAYAMA TEST
takayama reagent + stain extract
- Salmon pink hemochromogen crystals
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Detects blood where RBC structure is lost
and hemoglobin has undergone
chemical composition
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PRECIPITIN TEST
When human serum is injected in an
experimental animal, antibodies
develop.
When any human serum is brought in
contact with this animal serum, the
antibodies and protein will react and a
visible precipitate will develop
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- Barr bodies in > 3% of polymorphs
- Y chromosome is fluorescent to quinacrine
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Blood grouping
• red cell antigen
•White cell antigen
•Se protein polymorphism
•Red cell enzyme polymorphism
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ABO system
 Rh system
 MNSs group system
 Lutheran
 Duffy
 Lewis
 Kidd
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secretors
Non secretors
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Agglutinogens in water soluble form
Secrete ABO antigens into body fluids
and secretions
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Agglutinogens in lipoidal form
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Human Leucocyte Antigen (HLA)- the
MHC in humans
 Present on Chromosome 6 and encode
cell surface antigen presenting proteins
 4 types – HLA-A, HLA-B, HLA-C, HLA-D
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Occurrence in the same population of
two or more alleles at one locus, each
with appreciable frequency, where the
minimum frequency is taken as 1%
 Se. proteins subject to genetic variation
are
• Se. haptoglobins
• Se lipoproteins
• Abnormal haemoglobins
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> 250 proteins & enzymes found in red
cell
 Established value in paternity testing
• Phopho glucomutase
• Adenylate kinase
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