Comparison of post-mortem metabolic changes in sheep brain tissue in isolated heads and whole animals using 1H-MR spectroscopy--preliminary results
| Autor: | Frank Traeber, Frank Musshoff, Heike Klotzbach, Wolfgang Block, Hans H. Schild, Burkhard Madea |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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1h nmr spectroscopy
Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy Young sheep Succinic Acid Butyrate Biology Acetates Pathology and Forensic Medicine Choline medicine Animals Lactic Acid chemistry.chemical_classification Gastrointestinal tract Aspartic Acid Alanine Sheep Brain Creatine Proton magnetic resonance Time of death chemistry Postmortem Changes Propionate Sheep brain |
| Zdroj: | International journal of legal medicine. 125(5) |
| ISSN: | 1437-1596 |
| Popis: | By means of in situ proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy ((1)H-MRS) time-dependent metabolic changes in brain are measured for the estimation of post-mortem intervals (PMIs). An isolated whole head and a whole young sheep from an abattoir with known time of death were stored at approximately 21°C, and localized (1)H-MRS (TR/TE 2,500/25 ms) of the brain was performed at various PMIs with a clinical 1.5 T whole-body scanner using a quadratur head coil. In the isolated head, additional metabolites including free trimethylammonium (fTMA), propionate, and butyrate, and especially acetate, could be detected as described in previous studies. In the head of the whole animal, especially fTMAs and lactate were found in the late PMI but no further metabolites of relevance. These preliminary findings support the hypothesis that in a whole-body corpse, the distribution of bacteria from the gastrointestinal tract up to the brain in the late post-mortem interval can influence the metabolic decomposition of brain tissues. In further studies, it should be kept in mind that an isolated head does not represent authentic circumstances and is, therefore, not an ideal model for brain decomposition in intact corpses. |
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