Quality and quantity of DNA in cadavers' serum

Legal Medicine

Volumn 5, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2003, Pages

  Takayama, Tomohiro ^a   Nakamura, Isao ^b   Watanabe, Yoshihisa ^a   Yamada, Sadao ^a   Hirata, Keiji ^a   Nagai, Atsushi ^b   Bunai, Yasuo ^b   Ohya, Isao ^c  

^a Criminal Investigation Laboratory   (Japan)

^b GIFU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KANAZAWA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Apoptosis; DNA; Serum

Indexed keywords

DNA;

AGAR GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; ALLELE; APOPTOSIS; ASPHYXIA; BLEEDING; BLOOD SAMPLING; BLOOD SMEAR; BLOOD STAIN; BRAIN CONTUSION; BURN; CADAVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA DEGRADATION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; FIRE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; HYPOTHERMIA; LUNG EMBOLISM; QUALITY CONTROL; REFRIGERATOR; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SEPSIS; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA;

EID: 0038077533     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1344-6223(02)00105-0     Document Type: Conference Paper

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