A study in human cardiac tissue demonstrated that the mir-3185 is significantly upregulated in cases of mechanical asphyxia compared to deaths from craniocerebral injury, hemorrhagic shock, sudden cardiac death, and poisoning, with its expression showing no correlation with postmortem interval, age, or temperature [Han et al. DOI:10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110293]. A review notes the mir-3185 is part of a molecular prediction model for determining mechanical asphyxia death in human myocardium [Li et al. DOI:10.1093/fsr/owad003].