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Machine translation: LONDON (AP) -British scientists are about to initiate the final phase of tests of a new gel that, say, heals the ulcers in the legs up to five times faster than the normal thing. During three years, Connie McPherson he suffered debilitating ulcers of leg that were so painful that sometimes it could not sleep. In spite of several surgeries, antibiotics, steroids and other treatments, nothing helped him. Then, the last year, participated in a test of the new gel destined to the treatment of chronic wounds.

"Oraciones" went the answer to my; McPherson said, of 58 years, a real estate agent in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In a few weeks, McPherson said that the ulcers healed completely. "All the well-known had tried and this was the unique thing that funcionó". The gel that was used to take care of McPherson was developed by an equipment directed by David Becker, professor of cellular Biology and the development of the University College of London. The gel, Nexagon call, work interrupting the form in which the cells communicate and avoids the production of a protein that the treatment blocks. That allows that the cells move more quickly towards the wound to begin to repair it. Although one has only tried on until now in 100 people, the experts say that if is successful, the gel would act an important as in the treatment of chronic wounds, like ulcers in the legs or by diabetes, even for common scrapings or injuries derived from accidents.

In the majority of the chronic wounds, Becker said that there is an abnormal amount of certain protein related to the inflammation. In order to reduce their amount, Becker and its colleagues produced the Nexagon from DNA pieces that can block the production of the protein. " As the protein is deactivated, the cells move to close herida" , Becker said. The gel is slightly yellowish and has the consistency of grazes for teeth.

In an initial study on the ulcers of the legs, the scientists of the company that Becker was based to develop the gel discovered that after four weeks, the number of people with completely cured ulcers was five times greater in the patients than they received the gel in comparison with which they did not apply it. The ulcer of hard leg in average up to six months in healing and 60% of the patients return to undergo the problem of ulcers. Other experts said that the gel shines promising. " It seems that the gel has a positive effect in obtaining that the outer shell (of the skin) recovers " by itself; , it said Phil Stephens, head of engineering and weave repair in the University of Cardiff.

Stephens is not tie with the investigation of Becker. Nevertheless, Stephens thought that he is crucial that the gel does not interfere too much with the inflammation process. " It is needed that the inflammatory cells arrive there and clean herida" , it said. Brad Duft, president of Coda Therapeutics, that develops the product, said that still they will have to pass a pair of years before the new gel arrives at the market and that when that happens the price will be reduced of significant way. Some patients with ulcer in the legs spend more around 30,000 dollars to the year or in treatments. Duft said that the new gel would cost a fraction of that.