Applications of physiological bases of ageing to forensic sciences. Estimation of age-at-death

Ageing Research Reviews

Volumn 12, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 605-617

  C Zapico, Sara ^a   Ubelaker, Douglas H ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Age estimation; Ageing; Aspartic acid racemization; Chemical methods; DNA mutations; Molecular biology methods

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED GLYCATION END PRODUCT; ASPARTIC ACID; COLLAGEN; DEOXYPYRIDINOLINE; DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; LEAD; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA;

AGE AT DEATH ESTIMATION; AGE DETERMINATION; AGING; CHROMOSOME; CROSS LINKING; DEAMINATION; DEATH; DNA MODIFICATION; GLYCATION; HUMAN; OXIDATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RACEMIZATION; RAMAN SPECTROMETRY; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; TELOMERE SHORTENING;

ADULT; AGE DETERMINATION BY SKELETON; AGE DETERMINATION BY TEETH; AGED; AMINO ACID ISOMERASES; ASPARTIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHROMATOGRAPHY, GAS; COLLAGEN; FORENSIC SCIENCES; GENETIC TECHNIQUES; GLYCOSYLATION END PRODUCTS, ADVANCED; HUMANS; LEAD; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS, RAMAN; TELOMERE SHORTENING; TOOTH;

EID: 84875542336     PISSN: 15681637     EISSN: 18729649     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.arr.2013.02.002     Document Type: Review

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