EVALUATION OF APOPTOTIC MARKERS IN PAINT THINNER INTOXICATION: CASE REPORT

Year 2017, Volume: Volume 2 Issue: İssue 1 (1) - 2.İnternational Congress Of Forensic Toxicology, 259 - 259, 16.02.2017

Emine Firdevs Yıldırım Yunus Yükselten Asuman Sunguroğlu Sultan Pehlivan Bora Özdemir İrfan Korkusuz Aslıhan Avcı

Abstract

Institute of Forensic
Sciences, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey

Department of Medical
Biology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Ankara Group Administration
of the Council of Forensic Medicine, Ankara, Turkey

Department of
Biochemistry, Ankara University Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey

Paint
thinner is one of the cheapest member of volatile substances. A huge range of
household and industrial products such as paint thinner, glue, lighter refills,
gas, aerosols and solvents can be used as drug. Drug abuse including volatile
substance abuse killed 200 000 people in 2014 according to UNODC-Word Drug
Report 2015. Long-term volatile substances abuse as drugs can damage nervous
system, liver, kidneys, brain, five sense organs, muscles and may cause sudden
sniffing death syndrome. In this study, we analyzed Bax and Bcl-2 expression in
an adult male whose cause of death is paint thinner intoxication and compared
expression level with postmortem control.

Keywords

EVALUATION OF APOPTOTIC MARKERS IN PAINT THINNER INTOXICATION: CASE REPORT

References

• Emine Firdevs YILDIRIM, Yunus YÜKSELTEN, Asuman SUNGUROĞLU, Sultan PEHLİVAN, Bora ÖZDEMİR, İrfan KORKUSUZ, Aslıhan AVCI
• Institute of Forensic Sciences, Ankara University, Ankara, Turkey Department of Medical Biology, Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey Ankara Group Administration of the Council of Forensic Medicine, Ankara, Turkey Department of Biochemistry, Ankara University Medical Faculty, Ankara, Turkey