Forensic molecular pathology: Its impacts on routine work, education and training

Legal Medicine

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 61-69

  Maeda, Hitoshi ^a   Ishikawa, Takaki ^a,b   Michiue, Tomomi ^a  

^a OSAKA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Forensic pathology; Molecular autopsy; Molecular biology; Omic science; Pathophysiology of death; Violent death

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DNA; MESSENGER RNA;

AUTOPSY; BIOCHEMISTRY; CLINICAL PRACTICE; DEATH; DNA DETERMINATION; DOWN REGULATION; DYING; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETICS; GENOMICS; HUMAN; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METABOLIC PARAMETERS; METABOLOMICS; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PROTEOMICS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVIEW; RNA ANALYSIS; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION;

FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; MOLECULAR AUTOPSY; MOLECULAR BIOLOGY; OMIC SCIENCE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY OF DEATH; VIOLENT DEATH;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FORENSIC GENETICS; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC MARKERS; GENOMICS; HUMANS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL; LABORATORIES; METABOLOMICS; MICROBIOLOGY; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; PROTEOMICS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROLOGY; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84893772975     PISSN: 13446223     EISSN: 18734162     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.legalmed.2014.01.002     Document Type: Review

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