A jab that can rub out stretch marks; Good Health. From: The Daily Mail (London, England) | Date: June 7, 2005 | COPYRIGHT 2005 Solo Syndication Limited. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Byline: ROGER DOBSON

PATIENTS are to be injected with their own skin cells in a radical new treatment to help both stretch marks and gum disease.

A UK trial looking into both areas is about to begin at University College, London.

The treatment, called Isolagen living cell therapy, involves taking a 3mm piece of the patient's own skin from behind their ear.

From this, so-called fibroblast cells are extracted. These control the levels of t...

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