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ArticleFrontiers in medicine2022

Forensic Application of Epidermal Ubiquitin Expression to Determination of Wound Vitality in Human Compressed Neck Skin.

Siying Zhang, Yuko Ishida, Akiko Ishigami, Mizuho Nosaka, Yumi Kuninaka, Satoshi Hata, Hiroki Yamamoto, Yumiko Hashizume, Jumpei Matsuki, Haruki Yasuda and 3 more

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Article in Frontiers in medicine, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 9 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. State-of-the-Art on Wound Vitality Evaluation: A Systematic Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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  2. Death by hanging: possibilities and limits of medico-legal evidence.International journal of legal medicine · 2026
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

13 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Siying ZhangDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Yuko IshidaDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Akiko IshigamiDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Mizuho NosakaDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Yumi KuninakaDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Satoshi HataDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Hiroki YamamotoDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Yumiko HashizumeDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Jumpei MatsukiDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Haruki YasudaDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Akihiko KimuraDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Fukumi FurukawaDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Toshikazu KondoDepartment of Forensic Medicine, Wakayama Medical University, Wakayama, Japan.
Wakayama Medical University · JP

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Ubiquitin is a member of the heat shock protein family and is rapidly induced by various types of stimuli, including ischemic and mechanical stress. However, its significance in determining wound vitality of neck compression skin in forensic pathology remains unclear. We immunohistochemically examined the expression of ubiquitin in the neck skin samples to understand its forensic applicability in determining wound vitality. Skin samples were obtained from 53 cases of neck compression (hanging, 42 cases; strangulation, 11 cases) during forensic autopsies. Intact skin from the same individual was used as the control. Ubiquitin expression was detected in 73.9% of keratinocytes in intact skin samples, but only in 21.2% of keratinocytes in the compression regions, with statistical differences between the control and compression groups. This depletion in the case of neck compression may be caused by the impaired conversion of conjugated to free ubiquitin and failure of

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compressionforensic pathologyimmunohistochemistryneck skinubiquitin

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PMID35492347
PMCPMC9045732
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