Methods and compositions for increasing skin remodeling
OwnerLoren R. Pickartinventor
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Abstract
Skin remodeling is stimulated at the site of blemished skin using an ionic metal-peptide complex to diminish or remove the skin imperfection. The blemish can be a scar, especially surgical or wound scars, acne scars, keloid scars, and the like, or a skin tag, callus, benign skin mole, stretch marks, facial keratosis, thickened sunspots of the skin, or a vitiligo spot. The peptide-ionic metal complex is comprised of an ionic metal selected from copper(II), tin(II), tin(IV), and zinc(II), and salts thereof, and the peptide component can be a hydrolysis of casein, collagen, elastin, meat products, silk protein, or soybean protein, or a chemically synthesized dipeptide, tripeptide, tetrapeptide or the like which complexes with the ionic metal.
Claims16
A method for stimulating remodeling of blemished skin in a mammal, comprising administering to the blemished skin of said mammal a composition that comprises a ionic metal-peptide complex in an amount effective to remodel the skin and diminish or remove the skin blemish.
A method for inhibiting the development of a scar following a surgical incision in the skin of a mammal, comprising administering to the skin of said mammal at the site of said incision a pharmaceutical composition that comprises a ionic metal-peptide complex in an amount effective to remodel the skin and inhibit development of a scar at said site.
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