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Biotech / Medical : Indications -- scarring, fibrosis, adhesions, keloids

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To: scaram(o)uche who started this subject10/7/2003 11:28:52 AM
From: nigel bates  Read Replies (1) of 32
 
Renovo / TGFß3

newscientist.com
...At a meeting at the Royal Society in London, UK, last week, Ferguson reported results of the first clinical trials of TGFß3. The experiments involved making two separate wounds in volunteers' arms. One wound was injected with the drug while the other was injected with a placebo. Ferguson says the final product might be given as a cream or injected into the bloodstream.

To date, the drug has been tried on just over 300 volunteers. It does not always prevent scarring, Ferguson says, but it does reduce it. And it also dramatically speeds up healing...
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