The Wound Healing Process

CONTENTS:

• Preface
• Authors
• Estimating Wound Age und Disinguishing Intravital from Postmortem Processes in Forensic Medicine - Introductory Remarks

I. Interdisciplinary View Points

• Regualtory Factors in Cutaneous Wound Healing
• Pathology of Wound Healing and Repair
• Current Aspects of Surgical Wound Healing

II. Humoral Factors

• Chemokines and Proinflammatory Cytokines in Wound Healing
• Role of TGFß in Wound Healing
• Cathepsin D as a Marker of the Vitality of the Wounds
• Application of Ions, Proteinase Inhibitors and PGF2a in the Differential Diagnosis between Vital and Postmortem Skin Wounds
• Time-Dependent Cytokine Expression in Cutanous Wound-Repair
• Experimental Study on the Estimation of Skin Wound Age after Injury by Immuno-Staining Interleukin 1a, Collagen Type I and Fibroectin
• Determining the Age and Assessing the Vitality of Wounds by Immunohistochemical Detection of Cell Adhesion Molecules

III. The Cells

• Time-Dependent RNA and DNA Synthesis of Epidermal Basal Cells after Wounding - an Experimental Study
• Platelets and Wound Healing - a Review
• Mast Cells: Mediators and Aspects of Wound Healing
• IgG-Receptor Expression in the Red Blood Cell (RBC) Membrane and Triggering of Erythrophagocytosis as Response of a Structural Glycocalyx and Membrane Skeleton Alteration - a Review
• Time Dependence of Hemoglobin Degradation

IV. The Extracellular Matrix

• Collagen and Wound Healing - a Summary
• Collagen Subtypes - Markers for the Healing of Skin Wounds

V. Forensic Application

• Vitality and Supravitality in Forensic Medicine
• Estimating the Age of Hematomas in Living Subjects Based on Spectrometric Measurements
• Time-Dependent Morphological Alterations of Injection Marks
• The Microscopical Findings (Early Vital Reactions) in Bleedings of the Laryngeal Muscles after Laryngeal Injuries

Abbreviations

Subject Index

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