THE RELATIONSHIP OF THE PHAGOCYTOSIS OF PULMONARY MACROPHAGES OF RABBIT AND THE ELASED AFTER DEATH / 中国法医学杂志

The phagocytosis of fluorescence microbeads by washed pulmanary marophages of rabbit was determined by the flow cytometry at different postmortem interval. The results showed that the phagocytosis of the pulmonary macrophages of rabbit was markadly dropped with time elapsed after death. It was shown that the rate of phagocytic cell and the number of fluorescence microbeads per cell were decreased along with the prolongation of time after death. This method is helpful to estimate the time of death.