Talin: A potential protein biomarker in postmortem investigations

Talin protein levels steadily decreased with increasing postmortem interval. Interestingly, the study demonstrated that talin protein levels were statistical significant between postmortem intervals of 24 versus 48 h and 24 versus 72 h by ANOVA. These results provide strong evidence that talin has potential to be used as a unique biomarker for the establishment of an additional method to estimate the time of death.