Word: collagenized
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Both Trentham and Grayzel warned arthritis patients against over-the-counter drugs based on collagen, the major constituent of the treatment. Although such drugs are available at pharmacies, they do not have the proper amount of collagen, a protein found in joint cartilage, and have not been tested clinically...
...oral technique is also beneficial in that it arrests immune response before the onset of arthritis, effectively nipping the disease in the bud. A third advantage of the collagen solution is that it has shown low levels of toxicity in studies to date...
...hopes of "reinstructing" the immune system to cease attacking joints, researchers administered Type II collagen to 60 rheumatoid arthritic patients who had not responded favorably to treatment...
After about three months, both subjective and objective tests yielded data which suggested that the patients who received the collagen had benefited from the drug...
...addition to Retin A, the report mentions silicone injections, not approved for treating wrinkles, and collagen injections, approved for treating wrinkles but promoted by companies for improper use in lip enlargements...