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Collagen has been widely used in cosmetic surgery as a healing aid for recording patients for reconstruction of bone and a wide variety of purposes, dental and orthopedic surgery. Some highlights include:
1. When used cosmetically, there is a possibility of allergic reactions causing prolonged redness, but this can be virtually eliminated by the revision of the simple and hidden evidence prior to cosmetic use, and
2. most medical collagen is derived from cattle younger beef (bovine) animals certified free of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy). Most manufacturers use donor animals from any herd “closed” countries or properties that have never been a reported case of BSE such as Australia, Brazil and New Zealand.
3. pig tissue (pork) is also widely used to produce collagen sheet for a variety of surgical purposes.
4. alternatives using the patient’s own fat, hyaluronic acid or polyacrylamide gel are readily available.
Inmunosera widely employed in the construction of artificial skin substitutes for the management of severe burns. These immune sera can be derived from sources cattle, horses or pigs and even humans and are sometimes used in combination with silicones, glycosaminoglycans, fibroblasts, growth factors and other substances.
It is also sold commercially as a joint mobility supplement collagen [6]. This research does support like proteins need only be broken down into its base amino acids during digestion and could go to a variety of places besides the joints depending and DNA orders.
Recently it has become an alternative to animal-derived collagen properties in available. Although expensive, this human collagen, derived from the donor cadavers, placentas and aborted fetuses, can minimize the possibility of immune reactions.
Although it can not be absorbed through the skin, collagen is now used as an ingredient for some cosmetics make up.
Source: www.colageno.net/propiedades-del-colageno.htm
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