Evaluation of pulmonary GLUT1 and VEGF mRNA levels in relation to lung weight in medicolegal autopsy cases

Legal Medicine

Volumn 11, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2009, Pages

  Zhao, Dong ^a   Ishikawa, Takaki ^a   Quan, Li ^a   Michiue, Tomomi ^a   Yoshida, Chiemi ^a   Komatu, Ayumi ^a   Chen, Jian Hua ^a   Wang, Qi ^a   Zhu, Bao Li ^a,b   Maeda, Hitoshi ^a  

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

^b CHINA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Forensic pathology; Glucose transporter 1; Lung; Vascular endothelial growth factor

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER 1; MESSENGER RNA; SEA WATER; VASCULOTROPIN;

ACUTE HEART INFARCTION; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASPHYXIA; AUTOPSY; BLUNT TRAUMA; BRAIN CONTUSION; BRAIN HEMORRHAGE; BRAIN HYPOXIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DROWNING; FEMALE; HEAD INJURY; HUMAN; IDIOPATHIC CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; INJURY; LUNG ALVEOLUS; LUNG HEMODYNAMICS; LUNG INJURY; LUNG LOBE; LUNG WEIGHT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICOLEGAL ASPECT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SHARP INSTRUMENT INJURY; SUBDURAL HEMATOMA; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER TYPE 1; HUMANS; LUNG; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYOCARDIAL INFARCTION; ORGAN SIZE; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 67349208468     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2009.01.094     Document Type: Article

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