| Literature DB >> 23136602 |
Kiyoshi Kikuchi1, Ko-Ichi Kawahara, Kamal Krishna Biswas, Takashi Ito, Salunya Tancharoen, Naoto Shiomi, Yoshiro Koda, Fumiyo Matsuda, Yoko Morimoto, Yoko Oyama, Kazunori Takenouchi, Naoki Miura, Noboru Arimura, Yuko Nawa, Shinichiro Arimura, Meng Xiao Jie, Binita Shrestha, Masahiro Iwata, Kentaro Mera, Hisayo Sameshima, Yoshiko Ohno, Ryuichi Maenosono, Yutaka Tajima, Hisaaki Uchikado, Terukazu Kuramoto, Kenji Nakayama, Minoru Shigemori, Yoshihiro Yoshida, Teruto Hashiguchi, Ikuro Maruyama.
Abstract
Estimation of the postmortem interval (PMI) is one of the most important tasks in forensic medicine. Numerous methods have been proposed for the determination of the time since death by chemical means. High mobility group box-1 (HMGB1), a nonhistone DNA-binding protein is released by eukaryotic cells upon necrosis. Postmortem serum levels of HMGB1 of 90 male Wistar rats stored at 4, 14 and 24°C since death were measured by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay. The serum HMGB1 level showed a time-dependent increase up to seven days at 4°C. At 14°C, the HMGB1 level peaked at day 3, decreased at day 4, and then plateaued. At 24°C, the HMGB1 level peaked at day 2, decreased at day 3, and then plateaued. Our findings suggest that HMGB1 is related to the PMI in rats.Entities:
Year: 2010 PMID： 23136602 PMCID： PMC3490379 DOI： 10.3892/etm_00000019
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Exp Ther Med ISSN： 1792-0981 Impact factor: 2.447