Thanatometabolomics: introducing NMR-based metabolomics to identify metabolic biomarkers of the time of death

ConclusionsNMR has proven potential to determine the time of death based on post-mortem metabolomics modulations. This could be useful in the context of transplants, forensic studies and as internal quality control in metabolomics studies. Further investigations are required to validate these findings in humans in order to determine which compounds robustly reflect post-mortem metabolic fluctuations to accurately determine the time of death.

Source: Metabolomics - March 4, 2019 Category: Biology Source Type: research