Post-Mortem Protection of Human Dignity

A Concept of Human Dignity

Imaging maculopathy in post-mortem human eyes

Age-related maculopathy (ARM) remains a poorly understood degeneration. To discover new pathways using contemporary genomics, proteomics, and immunohistochemistry, validate emerging animal models, and validate new imaging modalities, human tissues obtained from donor eyes will be essential to ARM research for the foreseeable future. Because fundus appearance is the clinical diagnostic lingua fr...

Human skull translucency: post mortem studies.

Measurements of optical translucency of human skulls were carried out. An incandescent light source and a CCD camera were used to measure the distribution of light transmitted through the skull in 10 subjects post-mortem. We noticed that intra-individual differences in optical translucency may be up to 100 times but inter-individual translucency differences across the skull reach 105 times. Bas...

Experimental investigations of post mortem bioelectrographic images of human fingers

Time-dependence curves of evoked Bioelectrography parameters for 3-6 days after death was taken with specially designed apparatus based on Kirlian effect. According to the character of the time-dependence curves experimental data were arranged into three groups: 1) Curves with relatively small variation amplitude; 2) Curves with availability of one pronounced peak for several hours after death ...

Isolation of primary microglia from the human post-mortem brain: effects of ante- and post-mortem variables

Microglia are key players in the central nervous system in health and disease. Much pioneering research on microglia function has been carried out in vivo with the use of genetic animal models. However, to fully understand the role of microglia in neurological and psychiatric disorders, it is crucial to study primary human microglia from brain donors. We have developed a rapid procedure for the...