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During the 1980s, Cornwell worked in a coroner's office, and now she specializes in clinical descriptions of autopsies, explaining in graphic detail how to analyze the vaginal swab of a raped corpse or how to test skin ripped off a tortured child's buttock.
Participants consented to a medical record review which included abstraction of total glycated hemoglobin levels obtained at the enrollment visit, completed a self-administered questionnaire and self-collected a vaginal swab.
Good detail, but still no answer to the perennial question: Do they swab the prisoner's arm with alcohol to prevent infection before giving the needle or not?
The vial was then inverted and screwed into a stand and placed daily in each female's cage [ 15 ] . Females actively nuzzle the scentmarked vials, particularly during the first 5 minutes of exposure [ 11 ] . UGS smears were collected with a saline-moistened cotton swab every 1-3 days [ 15 ] . Body mass was recorded when smears were collected and growth rates (g/week) were calculated for each age and treatment group as the mass gained between the beginning of exposure (day 90) and necropsy.
Zygosity status was determined by close inspection of physical features, birth records, parental interview and genotyping of buccal swab DNA at 6 polymorphic genetic loci: maoa, drd3, dbh, maoa, b1adr and gsalpha [ 49 50 51 52 53 ] .