[Investigations of the autolysis of liver by passive electrical and thermodynamic statistical methods (author's transl)].

From continuous passive-electrical measurements on autolyzing liver tissue are derived statements about the structural changes in time. In the early post mortem phase the autolysis is a cell-controled process, which suddenly goes over in an uncontroled degradation process. The changes of the uncontroled process are fitted. The results are statistically and thermodynamically interpreted by a condensation modell. The high complexity of the living resp. cell-controled system correlates to a relatively high structural entropy.