Legal Medicine
Outline
The Department of Legal Medicine resumed performing forensic autopsies in 2007 and expanded its work in 2011, when a new forensic autopsy room was built in the Anatomy Center. In July 2015, Professor Mizukami became the sixth chair of the department and has been performing autopsies since then. We have been working in cooperation with the judicial branches of government, and performing about 60 to 70 forensic autopsy cases per year for Ishikawa Prefecture, as well as Toyama and Fukui Prefectures. Through our work we contribute to the judiciary, public health, and public welfare. Our current research themes are: Genetic analysis of drug metabolizing enzyme in persons with drug intake; Genetic analysis of sudden unexpected death and the elucidation of its onset mechanism; Study on the involvement of anaphylactoid reactions in amniotic fluid embolism.
e-mail: legalmed@kanazawa-med.ac.jp
Faculty
Professor and Chair
Assistant Professor
Assistant Professor
Research Achievements
Hajime Mizukami, Masamune Kobayashi, Shuichi Hara, Shinjiro Mori, Fumi Kuriiwa and Tatsushige Fukunaga. Histopathological changes in cardiac muscle and adrenal cortex in autopsy cases of fatal hypothermia. Acuta Crim. Japon. 2016; 81: 140-147.
Hajime Mizukami, Masamune Kobayashi, Shuichi Hara, Shinjiro Mori, Tomonori Nagai, Fumi Kuriiwa, Kenichi Yoshida, Tatsushige Fukunaga. Agenetic typing of angiotensin I comversion enzyme (ACE) gene in medico-legal autopsy cases Ⅱ. DNA Polymorphism 2015; 23: 174-176．
Shinjirou Mori, Ayako Ro, Norimasa Kageyama, Hajime Mizukami, Izumi Funakoshi, Takahiro Watari and Tatsushige Fukunaga. Characteristic of Postmortem Computed Tomography Images in cases of Hemopericardium due to Internal Causes and Effects of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation. Res. Pract. Forens. Med. 2015; 58: 119-124.
Ayako Ro, Norimasa Kageyama, Hajime Mizukami, Kumiko Asakura, Izumi Funakoshi, Shinjiro Mori and Tatsushige Fukunaga. Pathomorphometic Analysis of Cardiac Conclusion System with Serial Sections: Part 1.Volume and Density of the Sinoatrial Node in the Longitudinal Axis. Res. Pract. Forens. Med. 2015; 58: 201-205.
Ayako Ro, Norimasa Kageyama, Hajime Mizukami, Kumiko Asakura, Izumi Funakoshi, Shinjiro Mori and Tatsushige Fukunaga. Pathomorphometic Analysis of Cardiac Conclusion System with Serial Sections: Part 2.Characteristics of Atrioventricular Node, Bundle of His, and Associated Arteries. Res. Pract. Forens. Med. 2015; 58: 207-213.
External Research Funding
Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research: (Hajime Mizukami)
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B) : The Elucidation of onset mechanism of sudden death with ADAMTS13 KO mice (Masamune Kobayashi)
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B): The study on the involvement of anaphylactoid reaction in amniotic fluid embolism（Hiroshi Takeshita）