Research area
Tissue Repair Research
This area looks at how cells rebuild after damage.
What this area studies
Researchers here look at how cells rebuild after damage.
Repair is a slow, messy process with a lot of signalling in it. That makes it an obvious place to look for messages.
Compounds we hold a record for
BPC-157
A Recommended, narrow margin
TB-500
A Recommended, narrow margin
KPV
A Recommended, narrow margin
GHK-Cu
B Not put to the committee
Appearing here means the name turns up in this field of study. It does not mean the compound does anything.
Also named in this area
ARA-290
Studied in nerve damage work.
We do not hold a full record for these yet.
How strong is the evidence?
Read this before anything else
Nearly all of this work is in rats and in dishes. Only three small human studies of BPC-157 have been published. Large trials do not exist. TB-500 has no human bone or tendon data at all. Both are banned in sport.
Sources
- BPC-157 in sports medicine: a systematic review PubMed
- BPC-157 and tendon healing (cell and animal work) PubMed
- Injectable peptide therapy: a primer for doctors PubMed
We link what we read. Where a source found nothing, we link that too — a page that only cites the positive results is not a source list, it is an advert.
This is not a shopping list and it is not advice. None of these is approved
for people to take. Talk to a doctor about your health.