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Objective:To investigate whether the expression of protein VEGF and TGF-?1 can be used as an indextoestimate injuryage in the field of forensic medicine by approaching the temporal relation of VEGF and TGF-?1 expression with injury in the healing process of the incised wounds on rat skin.Methods:Experimental rat models were established by incisions made on the rat skin.the rat models were divided randomly into three groups:the experimental group,the normal group,and the postmortem injured group.The expression of VEGF and TGF-?1 were observed with Immunohistochemical techniques in their process of cicatrization.Results:In the experimental group,the expression of VEGF and TGF-?1 were higher than those in the normal control and postmortem injury group(P
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Objective To explore the time-related expressions of TGF-?1mRNA during the healing process of rat skin wounds. Method Using the method of the reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reac-tion (RT-PCR) on intra-vital rat skin incised wounds (0.5h, 1h, 3h, 6h, 48h, 72h, 96h, 168h after incision) and postmortem rat skin incised wounds (0.5h, 1h, 3h after incision) to detect the dynamics of expression Ievel of TGF-?1mRNA. The strength of the expression of TGF-?1mRNA in scanned image was using ID-Advanced software. Results The results of RT-PCR showed that TGF-?1mRNA Ievel increased at 0.5h after incision and elevated significantly after 3h. The peak of TGF-?1mRNA occurred at 48h. There was no obvious expression of TGF-?1mRNA in postmortem incised wounds. Conclusion The characteristics of the TGF-?1mRNA expression were potentially indicative for the wound aging. RT-PCR was a sensitive method for detection of the expression of cytokines in genic level.