Postmortem electrical excitability of skeletal muscle: preliminary investigation of an animal model
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M D Jones1, W S James, S Barasi
1Medical Systems Engineering Research Unit, ENGIN, University College of Cardiff, Wales, UK.
Forensic Science International
|December 18, 1995
Abstract:
Presented is a preliminary study of the feasibility of using an animal model to investigate the postmortem time-dependent decay in muscular response, when subjected to electrical stimulation and to develop an animal model for the assessment of the use of electrical excitability as a method for determining the postmortem period of a human corpse. Analysis of the results shows a correlation between the rate of decay of muscular response with the postmortem interval.