The Forensic Application of Vitreous Humour Biochemistry in Postmortem Disease Diagnosis

Autor: Agoro Es, O Azuonwu, M. M. Wankasi
Rok vydání: 2017
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Zdroj: Indian Journal of Forensic Medicine & Toxicology. 11:193
ISSN: 0973-9130
0973-9122
DOI: 10.5958/0973-9130.2017.00040.8
Popis: Vitreous humor is an inert, transparent, jelly like substance that fills the posterior four fifths of the cavity of eyeball which offers shape to the eye. Vitreous humour were collected from the eyes of 50 dead bodies (28 males and 22 females) at the Federal Medical Center Yenagoa morgue. The vitreous supernatant was analyzed for glucose, total protein, albumin, globulin, sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, urea and creatinine using WHO certified methods. SPSS 18–21 and excel Microsoft were employed for data analysis. The level of vitreous glucose in diabetic cadaver was significantly higher (P
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