Comment on “Promising blood-derived biomarkers for estimation of the postmortem interval” by I. Costa, F. Carvalho, T. Magalhães, P. G. de Pinho, R. Silvestre & R. J. Dinis-Oliveira. (Toxicol. Res., 2015, 4, 1443–1452) | Zendy

Joris Meurs | Zendy; Katarzyna M. Szykuła | Zendy

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Comment on “Promising blood-derived biomarkers for estimation of the postmortem interval” by I. Costa, F. Carvalho, T. Magalhães, P. G. de Pinho, R. Silvestre & R. J. Dinis-Oliveira. (Toxicol. Res., 2015, 4, 1443–1452)

Author(s) -

Joris Meurs,

Katarzyna M. Szykuła

Publication year - 2016

Publication title -

toxicology research

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.709

H-Index - 31

eISSN - 2045-4538

pISSN - 2045-452X

DOI - 10.1039/c5tx00397k

Subject(s) - interval (graph theory) , medicine , mathematics , combinatorics

Recently, Costa et al. published an article about promising biomarkers for estimating the postmortem interval. Instead of postmortem blood, antemortem blood was putrefied in vitro by exposing the blood to a temperature gradient. However, in this way several other influencing factors were excluded, hence, the accuracy of the proposed model is doubtful. Therefore, the aim of this comment is to discuss the methodology, results and shortcomings of the study of Costa et al.

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