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. 2020 Feb 18;15(2):e0218910. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0218910

Fig 2. Immunostaining of cortisol in the adrenal gland.

Fig 2

Micrographs showing hematoxylin-eosin staining (i) and immunostaining (ii) of cortisol in the adrenal gland in cases of (a) hypothermia (45-years-old male, postmortem period <28 h), (b) intoxication (27-years-old male, postmortem period <20 h) and (c) acute cardiac death (68-years-old male, postmortem period <40 h) (original bar 100 μm, respectively). In hypothermia cases, the cortisol positivity rates in the nucleus and nucleus to cytoplasm were higher than with other cause of death. Cortisol positivity in the nucleus was a characteristic finding in hypothermia cases.