کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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6552490 | 160437 | 2014 | 5 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Factors leading to the degradation/loss of insulin in postmortem blood samples
ترجمه فارسی عنوان
عوامل موثر بر کاهش / از دست دادن انسولین در نمونه های خون پس از قاعدگی
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کلمات کلیدی
موضوعات مرتبط
مهندسی و علوم پایه
شیمی
شیمی آنالیزی یا شیمی تجزیه
چکیده انگلیسی
Since lethal insulin injection has been used in murder and suicide cases, its non-ambiguous detection in postmortem, mostly hemolytic blood samples is still a problem. In the present study the stability of insulin and reasons for its loss in those blood samples were examined. When incubated with buffer, serum or with intact blood cell suspensions insulin concentrations were found to remain stable over time, but a significant loss of insulin was observed in hemolyzed blood samples. This was not due to an enzymatic cleavage, but predominantly to the presence of hemoglobin. Incubation of insulin with a hemoglobin solution containing the same hemoglobin content as hemolyzed blood caused a dramatic decrease of the insulin concentration. Degradation of insulin reached its maximum after 23Â h of incubation. The charge state of the ferric ion of hemoglobin could not be held accountable for the insulin-loss, but rather the protein part of hemoglobin. Alkylation experiments using iodoacetamide suggested that the thiol groups of the globin molecule are involved in the insulin loss preventing degradation at least partially. The same was observed by lowering the pH to 2.7 in the incubation mixture. Two degradation products of insulin were identified by mass spectrometry such as modified insulin A and B chains with 4 (A chain) and 2Â Da (B chain) lower masses. These results suggest that thiol groups of hemoglobin cause splitting of the disulfide bonds of insulin which immediately leads to the formation of new intramolecular disulfide bridges, a reaction which occurs in hemolytic blood and may explain the gradual loss of insulin in postmortem blood samples.
ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Forensic Science International - Volume 241, August 2014, Pages 173-177
Journal: Forensic Science International - Volume 241, August 2014, Pages 173-177
نویسندگان
Cora Wunder, Gerold F. Kauert, Stefan W. Toennes,