Goff M L, Lord W D
Department of Entomology, University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu 96822.
Am J Forensic Med Pathol. 1994 Mar;15(1):51-7.
Insects and other arthropods can be valuable tools in death investigations. In addition to their use in the estimation of postmortem intervals, insects may serve as reliable alternate specimens for toxicological analyses in the absence of tissues and fluids normally taken for such purposes. Recent research has also demonstrated that the presence of drugs and/or toxins in decomposing tissues may alter the rate and patterns of development in arthropods using such tissues as food, thus potentially altering estimates of the postmortem interval. Current advances in the use of arthropods as alternate toxicological specimens and the effects of various drugs and toxins on arthropod development are reviewed here.
昆虫和其他节肢动物在死亡调查中可以成为有价值的工具。除了用于估计死后间隔时间外，在缺乏通常用于毒理学分析的组织和体液时，昆虫可以作为可靠的替代标本。最近的研究还表明，分解组织中药物和/或毒素的存在可能会改变以这些组织为食的节肢动物的发育速度和模式，从而可能改变死后间隔时间的估计。本文综述了将节肢动物用作替代毒理学标本的当前进展以及各种药物和毒素对节肢动物发育的影响。
