Autolytic ultrastructural changes in rat and human hepatocytes

Romanian Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 247-252

  Karadžić, Radovan ^a   Ilić, Goran ^a   Antović, Aleksandra ^a   Banović, Lidija Kostić ^a  

^a Institute of Forensic Medicine   (Serbia)

Author keywords

Autolysis; Hepatocytes; Post mortem interval; Ultrastructural changes

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOLYSIS; AUTOPSY; CADAVER; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELL VACUOLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECOMPOSITION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; GOLGI COMPLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMIDITY; LIVER CELL; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MITOCHONDRIAL MEMBRANE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHILOSOPHY; RAT; SARCOPLASM;

EID: 79251478434     PISSN: 12218618     EISSN: 18448585     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4323/rjlm.2010.247     Document Type: Article

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