Evaluation of postmortem serum and cerebrospinal fluid levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone with special regard to fatal hypothermia

Autor: Dong Zhao, Yoko Azuma, Marianne Hamel, Li Quan, Ayumi Komatsu, Takaki Ishikawa, Tomomi Michiue, Hitoshi Maeda
Rok vydání: 2008
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Zdroj: Legal medicine (Tokyo, Japan). 11
ISSN: 1873-4162
Popis: The aim of the present study was to undertake, during routine forensic work, a comprehensive analysis of the serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and to examine hypophyseal TSH immunopositivity in relation to the cause of death, with particular regard to fatal hypothermia. Medicolegal autopsy cases (n = 120; within 48 h postmortem; survival time
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