Estimation of postmortem metabolic changes in porcine brain tissue using 1H-MR spectroscopy - Preliminary results

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 77-79

  Banaschak, S ^a   Rzanny, R ^b   Reichenbach, J R ^b   Kaiser, W A ^b   Klein, A ^a  

^a Institute of Legal Medicine   (Germany)

^b FRIEDRICH SCHILLER UNIVERSITY JENA   (Germany)

Author keywords

1H magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Animal model; Brain; Postmortem interval

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID; ALANINE; CHOLINE DERIVATIVE; CREATININE; SUCCINIC ACID; TRIMETHYLAMMONIUM SALT DERIVATIVE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM; BRAIN TISSUE; CADAVER; DEATH; FLUCTUATING ASYMMETRY; METABOLIC DISORDER; METABOLIC RATE; METABOLITE; MICROBIAL DEGRADATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; REACTION TIME;

ACETATES; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHOLINE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; LACTIC ACID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; MODELS, ANIMAL; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SWINE;

EID: 15244347845     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-004-0495-7     Document Type: Article

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