Long-term room temperature preservation of corpse soft tissue: An approach for tissue sample storage

Investigative Genetics

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Caputo, Mariela ^a   Bosio, Luis A ^a   Corach, Daniel ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC SOLVENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; COMPUTER PROGRAM; DNA EXTRACTION; DNA FINGERPRINTING; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXHUMATION; GARDEN SOIL; GENOTYPE; HAPLOTYPE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; MASS DISASTER; MITOCHONDRION; POLYACRYLAMIDE GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELIABILITY; ROOM TEMPERATURE; SHORT TANDEM REPEAT; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SOFT TISSUE; SOIL; TISSUE PRESERVATION; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84862186012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20412223     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/2041-2223-2-17     Document Type: Article

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