title: Estimating wound age: looking into the future.
abstract: A critical review is made of the studies on wound healing used for forensic purposes, focusing on the problem of which characteristics indicate that a parameter could be used as evidence in court. A panel analysing the more important information obtained by each marker is given, and a perspective of what might be expected from future research is discussed.
authors.affiliation: Dipartimento di Medicina Legale, Università La Sapienza Roma, Rome, Italy. rossana.cecchi@uniroma1.it
authors.forename: Rossana
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Cecchi
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D015415:Biomarkers / Q000378:metabolism; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules / Q000378:metabolism; D002465:Cell Movement; D002470:Cell Survival; D042783:Endothelial Cells / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D005104:Expert Testimony / Q000379:methods*; D005544:Forecasting; D049429:Forensic Pathology / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D018836:Inflammation Mediators / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D040901:Proteomics / Q000639:trends; D013997:Time Factors; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*; D014947:Wounds and Injuries / Q000145:classification* / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D015415:Biomarkers; D015815:Cell Adhesion Molecules; D018836:Inflammation Mediators