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05-16-2010, 03:35 PM
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 My Rank: MAJOR Poster Rank:11 Join Date: Jun 2009 Posts: 93,130
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Suicide and Rigor Mortis
Killed himself with a shotgun An unfortunate victim of suicide. Note that rigor mortis has maintained the position of his arms after the shotgun has been removed.Rigor mortis occurs because metabolic activity continues in the muscle after death. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is needed to maintain the postmortem relaxation of the muscles. So long as the store of glycogen in a muscle is sufficient to permit the regeneration of ATP by the formation of lactic acid, the muscle remains lax. When its store of glycogen is exhausted, the concentration of ATP falls, and the muscle becomes rigid because of the formation of abnormal links between actin and myosin. The rigor mortis persists until these links are destroyed by advancing autolysis.  · |
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05-16-2010, 03:43 PM
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 Satan's Playground Poster Rank:164 Southern Bell Join Date: Sep 2009 Posts: 9,385 Mentioned: 31 Post(s) Quoted: 157 Post(s)
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Re: Suicide and Rigor Mortis
Great info and post Kelly  It makes it really hard to id him with his eyes blacked out  |
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05-16-2010, 06:01 PM
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 *Born Retard* Poster Rank:101 Dude Join Date: Dec 2009 Posts: 16,041 Mentioned: 2 Post(s) Quoted: 56 Post(s)
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Re: Suicide and Rigor Mortis
Nice post, **Lady, and I'm sure the info is good although, sadly, I really didn't understand much of it. Good post, anyway |
