European Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Sciences

HAIR SUGGESTS HEIR OF DNA ANALYTICAL REPORT IN FORENSIC SCIENCE CRIME SCENE

Tanistha Mumtaz Chatterjee, *Dr. Dhrubo Jyoti Sen and Dr. Beduin Mahanti

ABSTRACT

Locard exchange principle says that “every contact leaves a trace.” Hair analysis can be used for the determination of drug use months after drug consumption, hair analysis data can often act as important and even decisive evidence in the courtroom. Hair analysis has been receiving increased attention during years and, currently, it has become the third most fundamental biological matrix used for drug testing in forensic toxicology, after blood and urine. The aim of this chapter is to review, summarize, and discuss different applications of hair analysis in forensic toxicology, based on the bibliography and on the experience of a forensic toxicological laboratory. They include, among others: •Postmortem cases; • Putrefied or even mummified cadavers, when other biological samples are not available; •To clarify the cause of death; •Loss of tolerance after a period of abstinence; •Multiorgan damage caused by long-term consumption; •Drug-facilitated crimes (DFCs); •Drug-facilitated sexual assaults (DFSA); •DFC in elder people; •DFC in children; •Divorce and child custody proceedings; •Follow-up of detoxification programs.

Keywords: Follicles, morphology, Cuticle, cortex, Caucasian race, medulla, capillary section, forensics, depigmented, medullary ratio, wavy, toxicology, radioimmunoassay, enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, curly, length, ancestral lineage, races, preservation, anal