Comparison of post-mortem metabolic changes in sheep brain tissue in isolated heads and whole animals using 1H-MR spectroscopy-preliminary results

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 125, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 741-744

  Musshoff, Frank ^a   Klotzbach, Heike ^a   Block, Wolfgang ^a   Traeber, Frank ^a   Schild, Hans ^a   Madea, Burkhard ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Post mortem interval (PMI); Post mortem metabolic changes; Proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Sheep

Indexed keywords

ACETIC ACID DERIVATIVE; ALANINE; ASPARTIC ACID; CHOLINE; CREATINE; DRUG DERIVATIVE; LACTIC ACID; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID; N-ACETYLASPARTATE; SUCCINIC ACID;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CADAVER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; METABOLISM; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; PATHOLOGY; SHEEP;

ACETATES; ALANINE; ANIMALS; ASPARTIC ACID; BRAIN; CHOLINE; CREATINE; LACTIC ACID; MAGNETIC RESONANCE SPECTROSCOPY; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; SHEEP; SUCCINIC ACID;

EID: 80052309528     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-010-0463-3     Document Type: Article

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