They found that whether applied topically or ingested in drinking water, glycerin, or glycerol, helps calm the classic scaly, red, raised and itchy patches in their psoriasis model, Dr. Wendy Bollag, cell physiologist and skin researcher at the Medical College of Georgia and Charlie Norwood VA Medical Center and her colleagues report in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences

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Vivek Choudhary, Ismail Kaddour-Djebbar, Victoria E. Custer, Rawipan Uaratanawong, Xunsheng Chen, Elyssa Cohen, Rong Yang, Etsubdenk Ajebo, Sarah Hossack, Wendy B. Bollag. Glycerol Improves Skin Lesion Development in the Imiquimod Mouse Model of Psoriasis: Experimental Confirmation of Anecdotal Reports from Patients with Psoriasis. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021; 22 (16): 8749 DOI: 10.3390/ijms22168749

Psoriasis, glycerin, glycerol, maturation, phosphatidylglycerol, hydrogen peroxide, aquaporin, phospholipase-D-2, inflammation, emollient, keratinocytes, oxidative, itchy, red, patches, scaly, Skin Lesion

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