Determining the age of a wound is challenging in forensic pathology,but it can contribute to the reconstruction of crime scenes and lead to arrest of suspects.Forensic scholars have tended to focus on evaluating wound...Determining the age of a wound is challenging in forensic pathology,but it can contribute to the reconstruction of crime scenes and lead to arrest of suspects.Forensic scholars have tended to focus on evaluating wound vitality and determining the time elapsed since the wound was sustained.Recent progress in forensic techniques,particularly high-throughput analyses,has enabled evaluation of materials at the cellular and molecular levels,as well as simultaneous assessment of multiple markers.This paper provides an update on wound-age estimation in forensic pathology,summarizes the recent literature,and considers useful additional informa-tion provided by each marker.Finally,the future prospects for estimating wound age in foren-sic practise are discussed with the hope of providing something useful for further study.展开更多
基金This study was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China[grant numbers 81601646,81571852 and 81373241].
文摘Determining the age of a wound is challenging in forensic pathology,but it can contribute to the reconstruction of crime scenes and lead to arrest of suspects.Forensic scholars have tended to focus on evaluating wound vitality and determining the time elapsed since the wound was sustained.Recent progress in forensic techniques,particularly high-throughput analyses,has enabled evaluation of materials at the cellular and molecular levels,as well as simultaneous assessment of multiple markers.This paper provides an update on wound-age estimation in forensic pathology,summarizes the recent literature,and considers useful additional informa-tion provided by each marker.Finally,the future prospects for estimating wound age in foren-sic practise are discussed with the hope of providing something useful for further study.
