Heavy industry has played pivotal role for the industry development in Korea forthe last half century and the facility requires periodic maintenance to keep consistency and stability because of harsh operating condition. However this might be carried out under oxygen depleted confined space. During the overhaul, suffocate might happen and the cause should be examined whether hypoxia is really involved. It is reported that hypoxia deaminates cytosine in DNA to uracil and then the DNA recovery system is known to be initiated. In this study, to get the information of uracil in the blood, SD (sprauge dawley) rats were exposed to the oxygen depleted confined space filled with nitrogen gas and then the blood was sampled followed by analyzed with GC-MS (gas chromatography-massspectrometry) through solvent extraction and silylation via standard addition method. The detection limit of the method for uracil was 0.01 μg/mL in water and the linearity of r2 showed better than 0.95. For all of the 7 blood samples, the concentration of uracil was from the value of less than 1.3 μg/mL for normal blood and 3.7 μg/mL through 10.1 μg/mL for the blood exposed to hypoxia condition. The concentration of uracil was found to be increased by about 9.6 times on average for 7 pairs. Additionally for the 3 cases of death assumed to be due to hypoxia in the confined space, the concentration of uracil was 21.8 μg/mL, 16.5 μg/mL and 10.0 μg/mL respectively. More sophisticated experiment should be required to confirm uracil to be used as a marker for the case of death in the oxygen depleted space because other variable could affect the concentration of uracil.
목차
Abstract I. 서론 II. 실험 1. 실험동물 및 시약 2. 질식조건 설정 및 실험장비 3. 실험방법 III. 결과 및 고찰 1. 유도체화 및 GC/MS 분석 2. 실험동물 생체시료 중 uracil 농도 3. 질식 사망사례 중 uracil 농도 IV. 결론 V. 참고문헌
키워드
HypoxiaUracilCytosineGC/MS
저자
이준배 [ Joon-Bae Lee | 국립과학수사연구원 대구과학수사연구소 ]
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법과학 분야는 사회정의 구현에 있어 크나큰 가치가 있음에도 불구하고 우리나라에서는 이 분야에 대한 인식이 미흡하여 선진 외국에 비해 침체되어 있는 실정이다. 이에 우리나라에서도 법과학 분야와 관련 있는 학계, 연구기관, 수사기관 등 유관 단체들로 구성된 한국 법과학회를 창립하여 이 분야를 활성화 시켜 과학수사를 한층 더 발전시키기 위함을 목적으로 한다.