title: [The mast cell and trauma].
abstract: Mast cell(MC) takes an important role in trauma and the process of wound healing, and the pathophysiology reaction has a relationship to the time since trauma, which is helpful to determine the post-trauma and postmortem interval, and to distinguish the wound shaped whether before or after death. In this paper, the role of MC and its chemic medium in the process of wound healing, scar shaping, postburns inflammatory response, healing of bone fracture, as well as the signification for forensic medicine and the progress of researching in this field were reviewed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Forensic Pathology, Tongji Medical College of Huazhong University of Science and Technology, WuHan 430030.
authors.forename: Wei-nian
authors.initials: WN
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Cheng-yi
authors.initials: CY
authors.lastname: Wang
authors.forename: Liang
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Liu
mesh_terms: D002056:Burns / Q000503:physiopathology; D005554:Forensic Medicine / Q000379:methods; D050723:Fractures, Bone / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D007249:Inflammation / Q000503:physiopathology; D007627:Keloid / Q000503:physiopathology; D008407:Mast Cells / Q000378:metabolism / Q000502:physiology*; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000473:pathology / Q000503:physiopathology*