Background & Aims Liver enzyme abnormalities are common in patients with coronavirus
disease 2019 (COVID-19). Whether or not severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 …

A research autopsy is a post-mortem medical procedure performed on a deceased
individual with the primary goal of collecting tissue to support basic and translational …

Death does not occur instantaneously and organs do not decompose at the same rate or in
the same way. Nulligravid human uteri and prostate glands are the last internal organs to …

The adult healthy human pancreas has been poorly studied given the lack of indication to
obtain tissue from the pancreas in the absence of disease and rapid postmortem …

Traditional histochemical staining of post-mortem samples often confronts inferior staining
quality due to autolysis caused by delayed fixation of cadaver tissue, and such chemical …

Objectives: We provide a systematic review of the literature to evaluate the current research
status of protein degradation-based postmortem interval (PMI) estimation. Special attention …

Being sudden cardiac death (SCD) and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) frequent
occurrences in forensic medicine, extensive research has been published about the use of …

Background: Cardiac troponin I (cTn I) and cardiac troponin T (cTn T) are currently widely
used as diagnostic biomarkers for myocardial injury caused by ischemic heart diseases in …

Context.—The National Institutes of Health Genotype-Tissue Expression (GTEx) project was
developed to elucidate how genetic variation influences gene expression in multiple normal …

The activity of the SARS-CoV-2 virus has not yet been studied in a post-mortem setting. The
absence of these data has led to the prohibition of exposure of infected corpses during …