Postmortem metabolomics: influence of time since death on the level of endogenous compounds in human femoral blood. Necessary to be considered in metabolome study planning?
Andrea Eva SteuerYannick WartmannRena SchellenbergDylan MantinieksLinda L GlowackiDimitri GerostamoulosThomas KraemerLana BrockbalsPublished in: Metabolomics : Official journal of the Metabolomic Society (2024)
To improve the consistency of comprehensive data evaluation in postmortem metabolome studies, it seems advisable to only include specimens collected within the first 2 days after death.