Restylane
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Sodium Hyaluronate, Hyaluronic Acid
Sodium hyaluronate is the sodium salt of hyaluronic acid, a glycosaminoglycan found in various connective tissue of humans. Contents 1 Chemistry 2 Natural occurrence 3 Mechanism of action 4 Pharmacokinetics 5 Adverse effects 6 Medical uses 6.1 Intra-articular injection 6.2 Intraocular viscoelastic injection 6.3 Skin injections in plastic surgery 6.4 Topical application 7 Contraindications 8 History 9 See also 10 References Chemistry Sodium hyaluronate is the sodium salt of hyaluroni...
any adverse side effects or benefits ## Well, the FDA has recognzed it as being beneficial is topic skin care products and some injections for wrinkles, such as in Restylane. Otherwise, I am not seeing a whole lot on adverse effects, but there is a page of information here: ## There are many HA products on the market that claim benefits to joints in humans. However most of them are defective because they contain snippets (low molecular weight segments) of the complex natural hyaluronic acid molecular structure. It has been shown in some careful studies that effective joint support requires HA molecular weight greater than one million Daltons. Taking a tablet or capsule through the human digestive system allows digestive enzymes to reduce even moderate sized HA molecules to thousands of ...
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