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Volume 7, Issue 1 , Pages 24-30 , January 2005

Effect of hypothermia on postmortem alterations in MAP2 immunostaining in the human hippocampus

  • Osamu Kitamura

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, 3-18-15 Kuramoto, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.:/fax: +81 88 633 7084.
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  • Takako Gotohda

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, 3-18-15 Kuramoto, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan
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  • Akiko Ishigami

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, 3-18-15 Kuramoto, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan
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  • Itsuo Tokunaga

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, 3-18-15 Kuramoto, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan
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  • Shin-ichi Kubo

      Affiliations

    • Department of Forensic Medicine, Institute of Health Biosciences, The University of Tokushima Graduate School, 3-18-15 Kuramoto, Tokushima 770-8503, Japan
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  • Ichiro Nakasono

      Affiliations

    • Division of Forensic Pathology and Science, Department of Translational Medical Sciences, Course of Medical and Dental Sciences, Graduate School of Biochemical Sciences, Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan

Received 9 November 2001 ,Revised 30 July 2004 ,Accepted 5 August 2004.

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