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Growth Factors
Growth factors are natural substances, usually proteins, that the body makes to promote specific activities. Growth factors are like a key to a lock for a certain activity. At present, there are some growth factors in the market for wound healing. However, there are various challenges to successful use of growth factors:
- Wound healing is a continuous phenomenon. Providing a growth factor at one stage is like providing a key that is needed for one of many locks necessary to be unlocked for complete wound closure. If applied at the right stage, a growth factor may be able to temporarily speed up the wound healing process to the stage where the next lock needs to be opened. Sequential therapy is not well understood.
- The enzymes body makes to defend the wound from bacteria often destroy the growth factor applied.
- Some growth factors have undesirable side effects.
With careful control of electrical signals, Human BioSciences has generated responses specific to various growth factors using a collagen molecule.
Advantages of Human BioSciences's growth factor technology:
- It would be possible to have sites specific to various growth factors on the same molecule, just like having a masker key for different locks. Therefore, one product may be used to substitute for various growth factors, similar to use of one master key instead of several keys in a sequence.
- This product would be more resistant to degradation by enzymes.
- No side effects are known to this technology.
