1Department of Forensic Science, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Akwa, Anambra State
2Faculty of Pharmaceutical Science, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Akwa, Anambra State
3Department of Medical Laboratory Science, Rivers State University of Science and Technology, Nkpolu, Rivers State
4Bayelsa State College of Health Technology, Otuogidi, Ogbia, Bayelsa State, Nigeria
Online published on 27 July, 2017.
Vitreous humor is an inert, transparent, jelly like substance that fills the posterior four fifths of the cavity of eyeball which offers shape to the eye. Vitreous humour were collected from the eyes of 50 dead bodies (28 males and 22 females) at the Federal Medical Center Yenagoa morgue. The vitreous supernatant was analyzed for glucose, total protein, albumin, globulin, sodium, potassium, chloride, bicarbonate, urea and creatinine using WHO certified methods. SPSS 18–21 and Excel Microsoft were employed for data analysis. The level of the studied vitreous biochemical parameters were not significant (P>0.05) based on gender, age and PMI comparisons. Also, there was no correlation between PMI and genders on one hand, and PMI and age on another hand. In conclusion, it is suggestive that gender and age does not have any overt effect on PMI and studied vitreous postmortem chemistry parameters. Hence, age and gender should be a factor in forensic investigations and jurisprudence.
Forensic Science, PMI, sex, age, vitreous humour
