Postmortem muscle protein degradation in humans as a tool for PMI delimitation

International Journal of Legal Medicine

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 1547-1555

  Pittner, Stefan ^a   Ehrenfellner, Bianca ^a   Monticelli, Fabio C ^a   Zissler, Angela ^a   Sänger, Alexandra M ^a   Stoiber, Walter ^a   Steinbacher, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Degradation; Human; Postmortem interval (PMI); Protein; Skeletal muscle

Indexed keywords

CALPAIN; DESMIN; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPONIN T;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE; AGED; BODY MASS; CHILD; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMAN; MALE; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; POSTMORTEM CHANGE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PROCEDURES; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TEMPERATURE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CALPAIN; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DESMIN; FEMALE; FORENSIC PATHOLOGY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; POSTMORTEM CHANGES; PROTEOLYSIS; TEMPERATURE; TROPOMYOSIN; TROPONIN T; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84960107044     PISSN: 09379827     EISSN: 14371596     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00414-016-1349-9     Document Type: Article

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