• Diatoms in forensic analysis: A practical approach in rats 

      Badu, Isaak K.; Girela López, Eloy; Beltrán Aroca, Cristina María; Ruz‐Caracuel, Ignacio; Jimena, Ignacio (Sage, 2014)
      A diagnosis of drowning is a challenge in legal medicine, as there is generally a lack of pathognomonic findings indicative of drowning. Diatom analysis has been considered very supportive for a diagnosis of drowning, ...
    • Histological Changes in Skeletal Muscle During Death by Drowning. An Experimental Study 

      Girela López, Eloy; Ruz‐Caracuel, Ignacio; Beltrán Aroca, Cristina María; Jimena, Ignacio; Leiva-Cepas, Fernando; Jiménez Reina, L.; Peña, José (Wolters Kluwer, 2016)
      A diagnosis of drowning is a challenge in legal medicine as there is generally a lack of pathognomonic findings indicative of drowning. This article investigates whether the skeletal muscle undergoes structural changes ...
    • Structural abnormalities in the human diaphragm in drowning and hanging deaths: preliminary results 

      Girela López, Eloy; Beltrán Aroca, Cristina María; Jimena, Ignacio; Pérez-Jorge, Pablo; Ramos-Medina, Valentin; Ruz‐Caracuel, Ignacio; Gill, James R.; Peña Amaro, J. (Springer, 2020)
      Purpose: Previous experiments in rats have indicated that there are histological changes in skeletal muscle in drowning deaths; these changes includemuscle fibers that contain ragged red fibers (RRF). The purpose of this ...