A. Dead animals will smell until they are completely decomposed or until they are dried out, whichever comes first. It goes without saying that the larger the animal, the more biomass there is to rot, the stronger the smell will be, and the longer the smell will last.
When cells are damaged by disease or injury, large amounts of these leak out, causing blood tests to show that enzymes are elevated above normal. (You can roughly compare this situation to a car that's leaking oil. Leaks in many parts of the engine can have the same result: oil all over your driveway.)
When there is any muscle damage or degeneration the contents from the muscle cells break open and enter the bloodstream. As most of the CPK is found in the body, any increase found in the blood level during a creatine kinase blood test is indicative of muscle damage. A creatine kinase blood test is used to help diagnose the following: 1  It helps in the diagnosis of heart attacks. 2  It can be used to appraise the cause of chest pain. 3  It can determine how much muscle damage is there.