Christoph Reisinger

Medical University of Vienna | MedUni Vienna · Center for Forensic Medicine

Anti-IgLON5 disease is a unique condition that bridges autoimmunity and neurodegeneration. Since its initial description 10 years ago, an increasing number of autopsies has led to the observation of a broader spectrum of neuropathologies underlying a particular constellation of clinical symptoms. In this study, we describe the neuropathological fin...

Background: Trauma is the leading cause of death in patients <45 years living in high-resource settings. However, penetrating chest injuries are still relatively rare in Europe - with an upwards trend. These cases are of particular interest to emergency medical services (EMS) due to available invasive treatment options like chest tube placement or...

Background: There is an urgent need to better understand the mechanisms underlying acute and long-term neurological symptoms after COVID-19. Neuropathological studies can contribute to a better understanding of some of these mechanisms. Methods: We conducted a detailed postmortem neuropathological analysis of 32 patients who died due to COVID-19...

Background: The unambiguous diagnosis of asphyxiation is still a major challenge for the forensic pathologist, especially in terms of highly advanced decomposed corps. Methodology: In order to demonstrate asphyxiation particularly in profoundly putrid bodies we hypothesized that hypoxic stress is basically responsible for generalized fatty degen...

Biological clocks set the timing for a large number of essential processes in the living human organism. After death, scientific evidence is required in forensic investigations in order to collect as much information as possible on the death circumstances and personal identifiers of the deceased victim. We summarize the associations between the mol...

The goal of this presentation is to discuss forensic methods of identification and legal procedures, as well as humanitarian aspects of human smuggling. Impact on the Forensic Science Community: This presentation will impact the forensic science community by detailing the dangerous, cruel, and inhumane consequences of human smuggling, so common in...

it´s all about protein stabilities..;0) in german-short: https://www.meduniwien.ac.at/web/ueber-uns/news/detailseite/2016/news-im-dezember-2016/sucht-verlangen-ist-auch-noch-nach-dem-tod-nachweisbar/

Background: The ~33 kD transcription factor ΔFosB, a Fos-family protein and belonging to the immediate early genes (IEGs), is initiated in the acute phase as a response to a wide range of effects such as drugs, stress, and several external stimuli. ΔFosB forms heterodimers with Jun proteins to generate active activator protein-1 (AP-1) complexes. T...