Word: collagenized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...greasy, we're dry," he sums up. He checks me for moles with the potential for turning cancerous, and finds none. But he does discover a handful of tiny red dots on my torso, another sign of aging. "Hey, these things just happen," he says, and explains that as collagen, the matrix of supportive tissue under our surfaces becomes brittle, skin wrinkles and veins shoot off in odd directions. While flaking skin, itching, red spots and sun spots--sometimes called liver spots--are an inevitable part of aging, especially among light-skinned Caucasians, skin cancer is not. People who baked...
FAMILY SKELETONS More evidence that if your mother has osteoporosis, you may be at risk for it: researchers have found a mutation in a gene that codes for collagen (the tough fibrous protein in skin and bone), which could predispose women to the bone-weakening ailment...
Perhaps the thinking among the programming executives at Fox went something like this: if television can sustain three different nighttime soaps about the backbiting and the collagen-injected in three different monied precincts of Los Angeles, then perhaps it can also sustain three action-adventure series set among leather-wearing warriors and hooded-caped, albeit prophetic, senior citizens in the woodsy, fog-laden hills of fifth century Europe...
...Throw out the moisturizer? Besides relieving symptoms of menopause, estrogen-replacement therapy seems to prevent SKIN from becoming dry and wrinkly. Why? Estrogen increases production of collagen, the fibrous tissue that makes skin elastic...
Endostatin is part of the molecule collagen 18, while angiostatin is part of plasminogen, a blood clotting agent...