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Botox

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Ng=4 cel ODYvAlign=top bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=2></TD> vAlign=top width='100%' bgColor=#ffffff><B><BR>Our <B>Botox Main Article</B> provides a comprehensive look at the who, what, when and how of Botox</B></TD></TRvAlign=top bgColor=#cccccc colSpan=2></TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE> <B>Botox:</B> A highly purified preparation of botulinum toxin A, a toxin produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum.

Botox is for injection, in very small amounts, into specific muscles.

It acts by blocking the transmission of nerve impulses to muscles and so paralyzing the muscles.

Botox is a brand name that has passed into popular usage as a synonym for <B>Bo</B>tulinum <B>tox</B>in.

Botox treatment has found a growing number of uses from easing muscle spasms (as, for example, in spastic cerebral palsy) to its increasingly widespread cosmetic use in flattening wrinkles.

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