Human remains

Himdin [8001-27-2] is a polypeptide of 66 amino acids found ia the saUvary gland secretions of the leech Himdo medicinalis (45). It is a potent inhibitor of thrombin and biads to y-thrombia with a dissociation constant of 0.8 x 10 ° M to 2.0 x lO " M. Himdin forms a stable noncovalent complex with free and bound thrombin completely iadependent of AT-III. This material has now been cloned and expressed ia yeast cells (46,47). Its antigenic poteatial ia humans remains to be estabUshed. 

Isotopic variation in European human remains is caused by a combination of environmental, biological and cultural factors. For carbon, the main influence is the dominance of C3 photosynthesis in all vegetation types. The factors that can cause deviations from this general trend are the climatic effect,... 

The roles of potential effector cells other than mast cells and basophils (e.g. monocytes/ macrophages, dendritic cells) in IgE-dependent and IgE-independent anaphylaxis in mice and humans remain to be determined. 

C22-0027. An archaeologist discovers a new site where small charcoal bits are mixed with human remains. 

Preliminary data indicate that in the reserpinised rat or MPTP marmoset, the enkephalin agonist (SNC80) reduces PD-like symptoms without causing increased activity, i.e. no trend to dyskinesias. Enadoline, a dynorphin-like kappa opioid agonist also has similar effects in the same models. Whether it would be similar in humans remains to be seen. 

Holland MM, Fisher DL, Roby RK, Ruderman J, Bryson C and Weedn VW (1995) Mitochondrial DNA sequence analysis of human remains. Crime Lab Digest 22 109-115. 

Bowler JM, Magee JW (2000) Redating Australia s oldest human remains a sceptic s view. J Human Evol 38 719-726... 

Gillespie R, Roberts RG (2000) On the reliability of age estimates for human remains at Lake Mungo. J Human Evol 38 727-732... 

Szabo BJ, Rosholt JN (1969) Uranium-series dating of Pleistocene molluscan shells from southern California - an open system model. J Geophys Res 74 3253-3260 Thome A, Griin R, Spooner NA, Simpson JJ, McCulloch M, Cumoe D (1999) Australia s oldest human remains age of the Lake Mungo 3 skeleton. J Human Evol 36 591-612 Wolpoff M (1989) Multiregional evolution the fossil alternative to Eden. In The Human Revolution. 

Fossilized primates, especially fossilized humans, are, unfortunately, particularly rare, and this partly explains why the evolutionary history of human beings is incomplete and continuously being revised. Still, the few fossilized human remains that have been preserved provide the main foundations for modem human evolution theories (Reader 1981). 

The supposed human remains were accompanied by flint implements and animal teeth, all of which apparently supported the early date attributed to the find. The flint implements were of a reddish color, matching that of local flints, but spectrographic analysis revealed that they had been artificially stained with chromium and iron salts below the layer of stain there was a white crust, whereas local flints were brown throughout. The animal teeth also seemed to have been "planted" at the burial site so as to suggest an early date the red-brown color of the teeth had also been artificially stained chromium and iron had been found when they were analyzed. A hippopotamus tooth, previously supposed to be contemporary with the tool carved from the elephant s tusk, was also stained with chromium and iron salts and contained little fluorine. 

E. Cappellini, B. Chiarelli, L. Sineo, A. Casoli, A. Di Gioia, C. Vemesi, M.C. Biella, D. Caramelh, Biomolecular study of the human remains from tomb 5859 in the Etruscan necropolis of Monterozzi, Tarquinia (Viterbo, Italy), Journal of Archaeological Science, 31, 603 612 (2004). 

E. Fernandez, J.E. Ortiz, A. Perez Perez, E. Prats, D. Turbon, T. Torres, E. Arroyo Pardo, Aspartic Acid Racemization Variability in Ancient Human Remains Implications in the Prediction of Ancient DNA Recovery, Journal of Archaeological Science, 36,965 972 (2009). 

Ubelaker et al. (1995) studied human remains from six shaft tombs excavated at La Florida, Quito, Ecuador, and dated to the Chaupicruz phase (ca. AD 100-450). They used isotopes to assess the dietary relationship between high-status individuals and the victims of sacrifice buried in the same tombs. 

The study of human remains has long been the most direct method of understanding the detailed lives of our ancestors as individuals. The methods of forensic science and palaeopathology have been applied for many years to determine age, sex, stature, nutritional status and cause of death, and to detect evidence of some diseases. Increasingly, DNA is being used to determine kinship. It is, however, no exaggeration to say that entire new vistas have been... 

Gulliford, A. (1996). Bones of contention the repatriation of Native American human remains. Public Historian 18 119 143. 

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