Certain metabolic processes persist in humans after death.
Certain metabolic and transcriptional processes, such as apoptotic gene regulation and mRNA degradation pathways, continue to function and change in human tissues after death.
The claim is that certain metabolic processes persist in humans after death. Papers [0] and [11] directly discuss postmortem gene expression, RNA stability, and the thanatotranscriptome (apoptotic gene activity after death), which demonstrates that biological and metabolic processes like transcription and programmed cell death persist postmortem. The other papers focus on neurodegenerative diseases, COVID-19 autopsies, or brain tissue sampling limitations without directly contradicting the persistence of postmortem processes.
Yizhang Zhu, Likun Wang, Yuxin Yin, Ence Yang. Systematic analysis of gene expression patterns associated with postmortem interval in human tissues. 2017. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-05882-0
This study evaluates gene expression patterns and mRNA degradation across postmortem intervals in human tissues, confirming that active transcriptional and degradation processes continue to be measured after death.
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Gulnaz T Javan, Ismail Can, Sheree J Finley, Shivani Soni. The apoptotic thanatotranscriptome associated with the liver of cadavers.. 2015. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12024-015-9704-6
This study investigates postmortem gene expression and demonstrates that apoptotic pathways and programmed cell death continue to actively alter gene expression profiles after death.
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