Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Patients with diabetic foot wounds increasingly receive healing products that stem from an unusual source: foreskin from circumcised babies.
The products, brand-named Dermagraft and Apligraf, are made of cells extracted from the foreskin and cultured to produce billions of similar cells. The healing products bear no resemblance to foreskin, which is simply the source of the cells, proteins and other agents that reside in the thin, plastic-looking strips placed on the wounds.
?I know when they told me about it, I kind of went, 'Oh, my goodness, I could have gone without knowing that,' ? said Wilma ?Willie? Lehn, a 78-year-old Omahan who has had three applications of Dermagraft on a big-toe wound.
One friend kidded her, asking what might grow out of the foot.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20131217/LIVEWELL01/131218979
The products, brand-named Dermagraft and Apligraf, are made of cells extracted from the foreskin and cultured to produce billions of similar cells. The healing products bear no resemblance to foreskin, which is simply the source of the cells, proteins and other agents that reside in the thin, plastic-looking strips placed on the wounds.
?I know when they told me about it, I kind of went, 'Oh, my goodness, I could have gone without knowing that,' ? said Wilma ?Willie? Lehn, a 78-year-old Omahan who has had three applications of Dermagraft on a big-toe wound.
One friend kidded her, asking what might grow out of the foot.
http://www.omaha.com/article/20131217/LIVEWELL01/131218979