HMGB1: A new marker for estimation of the postmortem interval

Experimental and Therapeutic Medicine

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 109-111

  Kikuchi, Kiyoshi ^a,e   Kawahara, Ko ichi ^a   Biswas, Kamal Krishna ^a   Ito, Takashi ^a   Tancharoen, Salunya ^h   Shiomi, Naoto ^f   Koda, Yoshiro ^g   Matsuda, Fumiyo ^c   Morimoto, Yoko ^b   Oyama, Yoko ^a   Takenouchi, Kazunori ^a   Miura, Naoki ^d   Arimura, Noboru ^a   Nawa, Yuko ^a   Arimura, Shinichiro ^a   Jie, Meng Xiao ^a   Shrestha, Binita ^a   Iwata, Masahiro ^b   Mera, Kentaro ^b   Sameshima, Hisayo ^a   Ohno, Yoshiko ^a   Maenosono, Ryuichi ^a   Tajima, Yutaka ^e   Uchikado, Hisaaki ^g   Kuramoto, Terukazu ^e   Nakayama, Kenji ^e   Shigemori, Minoru ^g   Yoshida, Yoshihiro ^c   Hashiguchi, Teruto ^a   Maruyama, Ikuro ^a   more..

^a Division of Laboratory and Vascular Medicine   (Japan)

^b KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d KAGOSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^e Omuta City General Hospital   (Japan)

^f Medical Care Center   (Japan)

^g KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^h MAHIDOL UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Forensic medicine; High mobility group box 1; Postmortem interval

Indexed keywords

HIGH MOBILITY GROUP B1 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BLOOD STORAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL TEMPERATURE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTMORTEM INTERVAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; REPRODUCIBILITY; TIME; TIME OF DEATH;

EID: 77955784283     PISSN: 17920981     EISSN: 17921015     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/etm_00000019     Document Type: Article

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