BPC-157's tendon healing mechanism involves promoting tendon cell outgrowth from explants, enhancing cell survival against oxidative stress, and stimulating cell migration — triple cellular mechanism for tendon repair.
Key findingBPC-157's tendon healing mechanism involves promoting tendon cell outgrowth from explants, enhancing cell survival against oxidative stress, and stimu
What the researchers found
BPC-157's tendon healing mechanism involves promoting tendon cell outgrowth from explants, enhancing cell survival against oxidative stress, and stimulating cell migration — triple cellular mechanism for tendon repair.
Why it matters
Relevant for peptide research.
How the study worked
research study.
What this study cannot tell us
See abstract.
How to read the evidence
emerging evidence.
When this study was published
Published in 2011.
The bigger picture
Advances peptide research.
Questions still open
- Further research needed.
Common questions
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What was found?
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The promoting effect of pentadecapeptide BPC 157 on tendon healing involves tendon outgrowth, cell survival, and cell migration.
Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985), 110(3), 774-80
Citation
Chang, Chung-Hsun; Tsai, Wen-Chung; Lin, Miao-Sui; Hsu, Ya-Hui; Pang, Jong-Hwei Su. (2011). The promoting effect of pentadecapeptide BPC 157 on tendon healing involves tendon outgrowth, cell survival, and cell migration.. Journal of applied physiology (Bethesda, Md. : 1985), 110(3), 774-80. https://doi.org/10.1152/japplphysiol.00945.2010