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Archive | ISSUE: , Volume: Jan-Mar-2024

Discriminatory potentials of vitreous electrolytes and renal indices in the autopsy of deaths suspected of disguise by hanging in rabbits.


Author:Ikimi, C.G. Ezekwesili-Ofili, J.O. and Igwilo, I.

published date:2024-Mar-21

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Abstract

The absence of biomarkers that can reveal the cause of death when the cause of death is disguised constraints the verdicts of the coroner. This study aims at exploring the discriminatory potentials of vitreous electrolytes and renal indices in the autopsy of deaths suspected of disguise by hanging in rabbits. Completely randomized block design (CRBD) was used for this study. 96 male rabbits were used for this research and were structured into four groups of twenty-four rabbits each: two treatment (test) groups and two control groups. In one test group, the death of the experimental subjects was caused by hanging. In the second test group, the death of the experimental subjects was caused by strangulation, thereafter, the dead subjects were hanged as a cover up of the actual cause of death. The remaining two groups are the baseline controls. After a postmortem interval of twenty-four hours, vitreous samples were obtained and analyzed for the levels sodium, potassium, carbon iv oxide, chloride, calcium, glucose, urea and creatinine using standard methods. SPSS (version 18-21) and one-way ANOVA were used for data analysis. The results show that postmortem vitreous levels of Na, Ca and creatinine differed significantly (P≤0.05) between samples from deaths by means of hanging and deaths by means of strangulation but disguised as hanging. The striking differences in the levels of these notable analytes can be utilized either as primary or confirmatory tests to reveal and discriminate between death disguised as hanging and death by actual hanging

Keywords: Autopsy, Disguise, Discriminate, Hanging, Coroner

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