A
Researcher in Canada has developed a skin cream that
allows people to painlessly remove their tattoos.
Alec Falkenham, a PhD student in Dalhousie University's pathology department , has come up with approach that make use of natural healing process our skin activates after it is tattooed.
When we get the tattoo the pigment from the . ink deposits into the skin where it is consumed by white blood cells named "Macrophages".
"Macrophages known as the big eater of the immune system .They eat foreign materials, like tattoo pigment,to protect the surrounding tissues,"Said Falkenham.In the case of tattoos ,two population of macrophages react to the Ink in different ways.One set transports some of the pigment to the draining lymph nodes ,removing it from the area.
The other population that has "eaten"the pigment goes deeper into the skin,become inactive and forms the visible tattoo.
Falkenham's technology,Bisphosphonate Liposomal tattoo removal (BLTR) targets the
macrophages that contain the pigments.
"BLTR is a cream that you put on your skin,"he said, adding that it uses a lipid-vesicle or leposome,that his team created.The technology is a safer alternative to lasers.
By acting as a "Trojan horse"in their drug delivery,liposomes target cells that can consume them,specifically those that contain pigment.This limits potential side effects to surrounding cells too.
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Alec Falkenham, a PhD student in Dalhousie University's pathology department , has come up with approach that make use of natural healing process our skin activates after it is tattooed.
When we get the tattoo the pigment from the . ink deposits into the skin where it is consumed by white blood cells named "Macrophages".
"Macrophages known as the big eater of the immune system .They eat foreign materials, like tattoo pigment,to protect the surrounding tissues,"Said Falkenham.In the case of tattoos ,two population of macrophages react to the Ink in different ways.One set transports some of the pigment to the draining lymph nodes ,removing it from the area.
The other population that has "eaten"the pigment goes deeper into the skin,become inactive and forms the visible tattoo.
Falkenham's technology,Bisphosphonate Liposomal tattoo removal (BLTR) targets the
macrophages that contain the pigments.
"BLTR is a cream that you put on your skin,"he said, adding that it uses a lipid-vesicle or leposome,that his team created.The technology is a safer alternative to lasers.
By acting as a "Trojan horse"in their drug delivery,liposomes target cells that can consume them,specifically those that contain pigment.This limits potential side effects to surrounding cells too.
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