Quantitative analysis of ubiquitin-immunoreactivity in the midbrain periaqueductal gray matter with regard to the causes of death in forensic autopsy

Legal Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 151-156

  Quan, Li ^a   Ishikawa, Takaki ^a   Michiue, Tomomi ^a   Li, Dong Ri ^a   Zhao, Dong ^a   Zhu, Bao Li ^a   Maeda, Hitoshi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Human midbrain; Immunohistochemistry; Neurodegeneration; Pain; Periaqueductal gray matter; Ubiquitin

Indexed keywords

UBIQUITIN;

ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CONSCIOUSNESS; DROWNING; FATALITY; FIRE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; HYPERTHERMIA; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INJURY; MESENCEPHALON; NERVE CELL; NERVE DEGENERATION; PAIN; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; UBIQUITINATION; WEAPON;

EID: 17444424577     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2004.11.003     Document Type: Article

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