Vacuum cleaner use in autoerotic death.
A case of a fatal cardiac episode resulting from an unusual autoerotic practice involving the use of a vacuum cleaner, is presented. Scene investigation and autopsy findings are discussed.
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Biomedical subjects
M Kemal
Publications and source records attributed to M Kemal.
A fatal methocarbamol intoxication.
A fatal methocarbamol intoxication is presented. Significant toxicologic findings were blood concentrations of 525 mg/L methocarbamol and 140 mg/dL ethanol. Analysis was by thin-layer, gas-liquid, and high pressure liquid chromatography. Toxicology data relevant to the interpretation of case findings are discussed.
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Isolation and identification of a cannabinoid-like compound from Amorpha species.
The petroleum ether extracts from several plants have been screened on the plates with the chromogenic reagent Fast Blue B. salt. Extracts from different plant parts of Amorpha fruticosa, A. nanna, and A. canescens gave several spots with color and Rf values similar to those of Cannabis sativa extract. The major compound, amorphastilbol (1), was isolated by column chromatography, purified, and characterized by mp, elemental analysis, uv, ir, mass, prm, and cmr spectroscopy. Further information was obtained by analyzing the oxidation products of the compound. The evidence indicates that amorphastilbol is a phenolic stilbene terpenoid with a molecular formula of C24 H28 O2 and structural formula: (E,E)-2-(3',7'-dimethyl-2'-6'-octadienyl)-5-(2-phenylethenyl)-1,3-benzenediol. This is the first report of the isolation of a naturally-occurring stilbene derivative possessing a terpenoid moiety.
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Acute thiothixene overdose.
An acute thiothixene intoxication is presented. Blood thiothixene concentration of 0.52 mg/L was detected before it declined to 0.047 mg/L in 12 hrs. Analysis was by thin layer chromatography, ultraviolet spectrophotometry, and fluorescence spectrophotometry.
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