A time-course analysis of mRNA expression during injury healing in human dermal injuries.

The determination of dermal injury age is important in forensic practice. It helps answer questions that are important to an investigation such as the timing of the injury and incident, the order of infliction (where there is more than one injury), the survival time after injury (post-infliction interval) and the relation of the injury to the incident. Despite the importance of injury age determination, there currently exists no reliable method to estimate dermal injury age.