Botox has come a long way since starting as a treatment for lazy eye!!!
From treatments to reduce blepharospasm, torticollis, and facial spasms, to the not so neurological specific use of revitalizing the face (if you are one of those stars that can afford the $500/mL injections), botox has come a long way in proving its usefulness in a wide range of clinical environments.
More recently discovered is its possible function in the field of urology, more specifically, reducing bladder outlet obstruction (obstructive and irritating urination problems).
Article Link: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2490/6/12
The research in this article found that botulinum toxin type A (commonly called botox), when injected into the bladder of male humans and dogs, induced prostate apoptosis in dogs, and reduced bladder outlet obstruction in males. This treatment has proven beneficial for the aging population, especially those with neurodegenerative diseases which aggravate the effects of bladder problems like Parkinson's disease. Botox typically doesn't last more than 3 months. It is different in everyone, as it depends on the sensitivity of the anchoring proteins in their presynaptic cleft that bind the vesicle to the wall. Some people may need a higher quantity injected to feel an effect, and some may be completely immune to the type a strain.
It would be interesting to conduct a study that looks at the effects of some of the other strains of neurotoxins, like dysport, myobloc, and xeomin, and see if they have similar results (the different strains are either more purified or act on different anchoring proteins).
Lately, Botox has become a part of our lives, because more and more people choose to get rid of their wrinkles by following this kind of treatments. It's not a bad thing, because it's a non-invasive procedure and I must admit that I've injected Botox at Skin Vitality (http://www.skinvitality.ca). I read about the doctors from this clinic and I said that I must give it a try, because I didn't like how I looked before!
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