Identification of malignant hyperthermia-susceptible ryanodine receptor type 1 gene (RYR1) mutations in a child who died in a car after exposure to a high environmental temperature

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 142-143

  Nishio, Hajime ^a   Sato, Takako ^a   Fukunishi, Shinya ^a   Tamura, Akiyoshi ^a   Iwata, Misa ^a   Tsuboi, Kento ^a   Suzuki, Koichi ^a  

^a OSAKA MEDICAL COLLEGE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Autopsy; Genetic analysis; Heat stroke; Infant; Temperature

Indexed keywords

RYANODINE RECEPTOR 1; RYANODINE RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CASE REPORT; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; FEMALE; GENE MUTATION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; HEAT STROKE; HIGH TEMPERATURE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; PRESCHOOL CHILD; CAR; FATALITY; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; HEAT; JAPAN; MUTATION;

AUTOMOBILES; AUTOPSY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HOT TEMPERATURE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALIGNANT HYPERTHERMIA; MUTATION; RYANODINE RECEPTOR CALCIUM RELEASE CHANNEL;

EID: 63249092411     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2008.12.004     Document Type: Article

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