Saturday, April 01, 2006 | Rigor mortis

or postmortem rigidity begins 3-6 hours after death. According to Nysten's law, rigor mortis begins at the head and spreads toward the feet, later subsiding in the same manner. It occurs die to lack of ATP and the subsequent coagulation of actin and myosinfilaments.

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