caa a22 4500 475787846 CHVBK 20180406123704.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000601xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s004149900100 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s004149900100 Onset of rigor mortis is earlier in red muscle than in white muscle [Elektronische Daten] [M. Kobayashi, T. Takatori, M. Nakajima, K. Sakurada, K. Hatanaka, H. Ikegaya, Y. Matsuda, H. Iwase] Rigor mortis is thought to be related to falling ATP levels in muscles postmortem. We measured rigor mortis as tension determined isometrically in three rat leg muscles in liquid paraffin kept at 37 °C or 25 °C - two red muscles, red gastrocnemius (RG) and soleus (SO) and one white muscle, white gastrocnemius (WG). Onset, half and full rigor mortis occurred earlier in RG and SO than in WG both at 37 °C and at 25 °C even though RG and WG were portions of the same muscle. This suggests that rigor mortis directly reflects the postmortem intramuscular ATP level, which decreases more rapidly in red muscle than in white muscle after death. Rigor mortis was more retarded at 25 °C than at 37 °C in each type of muscle. Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg, 2000 Key words Rigor mortis nationallicence Muscle fiber types nationallicence Liquid paraffin nationallicence Temperature nationallicence Rats nationallicence Kobayashi M. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut Takatori T. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut Nakajima M. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut Sakurada K. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut Hatanaka K. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut Ikegaya H. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut Matsuda Y. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut Iwase H. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut https://doi.org/10.1007/s004149900100 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s004149900100 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Kobayashi M. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Takatori T. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Nakajima M. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Sakurada K. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Hatanaka K. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Ikegaya H. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Matsuda Y. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Iwase H. Department of Forensic Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Hongo 7-3-1, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan Fax: +81-3-58413581, JP aut Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer