Response to the comment on “Promising blood-derived biomarkers for estimation of the postmortem interval”-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Response to the comment on “Promising blood-derived biomarkers for estimation of the postmortem interval”

Published:2016-02-02 Issue:2 Volume:5 Page:716-718
ISSN:2045-4538
Container-title:Toxicology Research
language:en
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Author:

Dinis-Oliveira Ricardo Jorge¹²³,Carvalho Félix²^ORCID,Costa Isabel¹³,Silvestre Ricardo⁴⁵,Magalhães Teresa¹³

Affiliation:

1. IINFACTS - Institute of Research and Advanced Training in Health Sciences and Technologies, Department of Sciences, University Institute of Health Sciences (IUCS-CESPU), Gandra, Portugal

2. UCIBIO-REQUIMTE, Laboratory of Toxicology, Department of Biological Sciences, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal

3. Department of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. Tel: +351 225513600

4. Life and Health Sciences Research Institute (ICVS), School of Health Sciences, University of Minho, Braga, Portugal

5. ICVS/3B's – PT Government Associate Laboratory, Braga/Guimarães, Portugal

Abstract

Abstract Following Meurs and Szykuła's comment on our published article titled “Promising blood-derived biomarkers for estimation of the postmortem interval”, we recognize the importance of the issues raised, but we would like to emphasize that these contain some misinterpretations and that most of the points were already discussed in depth in our manuscript particularly in the conclusion section. We also aim to highlight further data regarding the difficulties of postmortem interval estimation.

Publisher

Oxford University Press (OUP)

Subject

Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis,Toxicology

Link

http://academic.oup.com/toxres/article-pdf/5/2/716/36632042/toxres_5_2_716.pdf

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