DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH COSMETIC MICROCAPSULES

• Main Authors: L. Aluigi, G. Pirotta
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: SUMMARY; Antarctic; Antarc*
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.543.9392; http://www.lvmtechnologies.com/Abstract Congresso Mondiale.pdf

Diabetes is a serious pathology with a great number of complications, the “diabetic foot”, an anatomic and functional alteration with serious alteration of skin and function, constitutes a serious problem in this pathology. Maintaining in a good healthy state the epidermis is very important. A new medical device based on a delivery system with microcapsule and with a cosmetic ingredient has been verified on 20 patients. The microcapsules adopted in the device contain a glycoprotein derived by an Antarctic bacterium. All the patients have shown a definite improvement of the degree of cutaneous keratosis and state of epidermis. A photographic documentation has been realized.