1. Forensic significance of concentrations of ethanol in brain tissues following induced acute subdural hemorrhage

   • K. Takahashi
   • N. Ikeda
   • M. Funayama

   Original article Pages: 1 - 5

2. Intranuclear ubiquitin immunoreactivity of the pigmented neurons of the substantia nigra in fatal acute mechanical asphyxiation and drowning

   • L. Quan
   • B.-L. Zhu
   • H. Maeda

   Original article Pages: 6 - 11

3. Paternity testing using Y-STR haplotypes: assigning a probability for paternity in cases of mutations

   • B. Rolf
   • W. Keil
   • R. Fimmers

   Original article Pages: 12 - 15

4. Trajectory reconstruction from trace evidence on spent bullets

   • B. Karger
   • A. Hoekstra
   • P. F. Schmidt

   Original article Pages: 16 - 22

5. Immunohistochemical alterations after intravital and post-mortem traumatic myocardial damage

   • C. Ortmann
   • H. Pfeiffer
   • B. Brinkmann

   Original article Pages: 23 - 28

6. An annotated mtDNA database

   • Arne Röhl
   • Bernd Brinkmann
   • P. Forster

   Original article Pages: 29 - 39

7. Flemish population data and sequence structure of the hypervariable tetranucleotide repeat locus D12S1090

   • G. Mertens
   • N. Mommers
   • A. Vandenberghe

   Original article Pages: 40 - 44

8. Non-amplification of an allele of the D8S1179 locus due to a point mutation

   • G.-R. Han
   • Eun-Seop Song
   • Juck-Joon Hwang

   Case report Pages: 45 - 47

9. The evaluation of mixed stains from different ethnic origins: general result and common cases

   • W. K. Fung
   • Y.-Q. Hu

   Technical note Pages: 48 - 53

10. Identification and characterization of two novel human polymorphic STRs on the Y chromosome

    • R. Iida
    • E. Tsubota
    • T. Matsuki

    Short communication Pages: 54 - 56

11. Multiplex PCR amplification of eight STR loci in Austrian and Croatian Caucasian populations

    • J. Ross
    • W. Parson
    • M. Holland

    Short communication Pages: 57 - 60