Real-time RT-PCR quantitative assays and postmortem degradation profiles of erythropoietin, vascular endothelial growth factor and hypoxia-inducible factor 1 alpha mRNA transcripts in forensic autopsy materials

Legal Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 132-136

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

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

Author keywords

Erythropoietin; Hypoxia inducible factor 1 alpha; Messenger ribonucleic acid; Postmortem degradation; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

ERYTHROPOIETIN; GLYCERALDEHYDE 3 PHOSPHATE DEHYDROGENASE; HYPOXIA INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1ALPHA; MESSENGER RNA; VASCULOTROPIN;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME DEGRADATION; FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION; HEART; HEART MUSCLE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY PARENCHYMA; LUNG PARENCHYMA; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ASSAY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA STABILITY; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; ROOM TEMPERATURE; TISSUE PRESERVATION;

BRAIN CHEMISTRY; ERYTHROPOIETIN; HUMANS; HYPOXIA-INDUCIBLE FACTOR 1, ALPHA SUBUNIT; KIDNEY; LUNG; MYOCARDIUM; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIMEN HANDLING; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 32644469701     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2005.09.001     Document Type: Article

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