Elsevier

Forensic Science

Volume 6, Issues 1–2, August–October 1975, Pages 25-29

Biochemical aspects of cell death

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Abstract

Studies of cell injury and death at the molecular and cell-biological level will help to provide methods for the reconstruction of the course of events between the occurrence of primary pathology and the time of investigation. The general role of component turnover, energy metabolism and lysosomes in cellular injury is briefly described.

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