Fig 3. Cortisol positivity rate in the nucleus and cytoplasm by cause of death.

Cortisol immunopositivity in the nucleus (a: hypothermia; p<0.05), cytoplasm (b: hypothermia; p>0.05), and nucleus to cytoplasm (c: hypothermia; p>0.05) ratio by cause of death. Cause of death was classified based on a complete autopsy, and micromorphologic, micropathologic, and toxicologic examinations, as follows: sharp instrument injury (male n = 7, female n = 1), non-head blunt injury (male n = 9, female n = 0), blunt head injury (male n = 19, female n = 9), asphyxia (male n = 19, female n = 10), drowning (male n = 7, female n = 4), hypothermia (male n = 9, female n = 5), hyperthermia (male n = 3, female n = 7), intoxication (male n = 8, female n = 3), fire fatality (male n = 34, female n = 10), acute cardiac death (male n = 19, female n = 1), and natural death (male n = 14, female n = 8).