Kapoor Priyanka, Chowdhry Aman
Department of Orthodontics, Faculty of Dentistry, Jamia Miillia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, Faculty of Dentistry, Jamia Miillia Islamia, New Delhi, India.
J Forensic Dent Sci. 2018 Sep-Dec;10(3):123-127. doi: 10.4103/jfo.jfds_30_18.
Saliva has recently served as a primary investigative tool in forensics in the detection of crime, cases of sexual assaults, human and animal bite marks, poisoning, hormone identification, and alcohol and drug abuse.
This scoping review aimed to comprehensively identify the role of saliva in comparative and reconstructive identification and propose the concept of salivary signature (SS) in forensics.
A literature search was performed on electronic databases, PubMed and Google Scholar with keywords, "salivary," "microbiome," and "forensics," and relevant articles identified along with reference tracking.
SS model was based on salivary microbiome and biomarkers which together provide pertinent information about lifestyle, behavioral patterns, circadian rhythms, geolocation, cohabitation of individuals, postmortem intervals, systemic and oral ailments or cancers besides salivary flow and composition.
This communication highlights the constituents of SS and their significance in forensics. It also enumerates factors altering SS, limitations owing to diversity in microbiome and biomarker status, and possible measures to improve its accuracy and robustness in forensics.
唾液最近已成为法医学中用于犯罪侦查、性侵犯案件、人类和动物咬痕、中毒、激素鉴定以及酒精和药物滥用检测的主要调查工具。
本综述旨在全面确定唾液在比较和重建鉴定中的作用,并提出法医唾液特征(SS)的概念。
在电子数据库PubMed和谷歌学术上进行文献检索,关键词为“唾液”“微生物组”和“法医学”,并通过参考文献追踪确定相关文章。
SS模型基于唾液微生物组和生物标志物,除了唾液流量和成分外,它们共同提供有关生活方式、行为模式、昼夜节律、地理位置、个体同居情况、死后间隔、全身和口腔疾病或癌症的相关信息。
本通讯强调了SS的组成部分及其在法医学中的意义。它还列举了改变SS的因素、由于微生物组和生物标志物状态的多样性而产生的局限性,以及提高其在法医学中的准确性和稳健性的可能措施。