ArticleSurgery today2008
Gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 as an effective therapy for muscle crush injury in the rat.
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- BPC 157 in Rodent Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury: A Critical Review of Preclinical Evidence.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Peptides in Regenerative Medicine: A Comprehensive Review of Clinical Applications in Tissue Repair and Chronic Pain Management.Current pain and headache reports · 2026Review
- Protective effects of BPC 157 in rats with experimentally induced lower extremity ischemia-reperfusion injury.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Endothelium-Dependent Nitric Oxide-Mediated Vasorelaxant Effects of BPC 157 in Human Internal Mammary Artery.Journal of clinical medicine · 2026Article
- Cytoprotection as a Unifying Strategy for Hemorrhage and Thrombosis: The Role of BPC 157 and Related Therapeutics.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- Tendon, Ligament, and Muscle Injury, Osteotendinous, Myotendinous, and Muscle-to-Bone Junction Therapy Perspectives with Growth Factors and Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157-A Review.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Review
- BPC157 drives angiogenesis through FBXO22-dependent stabilization of BACH1.Cell communication and signaling : CCS · 2026Article
- Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 as a Therapy and Safety Key: A Special Beneficial Pleiotropic Effect Controlling and Modulating Angiogenesis and the NO-System.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Protective Effects of BPC 157 on Liver, Kidney, and Lung Distant Organ Damage in Rats with Experimental Lower-Extremity Ischemia-Reperfusion Injury.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
- Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 as Therapy After Surgical Detachment of the Quadriceps Muscle from Its Attachments for Muscle-to-Bone Reattachment in Rats.Pharmaceutics · 2025Article
- New studies with stable gastric pentadecapeptide protecting gastrointestinal tract. significance of counteraction of vascular and multiorgan failure of occlusion/occlusion-like syndrome in cytoprotection/organoprotection.Inflammopharmacology · 2024Review
- Local and Systemic Peptide Therapies for Soft Tissue Regeneration: A Narrative Review.The Yale journal of biology and medicine · 2024Review
- The Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 Pleiotropic Beneficial Activity and Its Possible Relations with Neurotransmitter Activity.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 May Recover Brain-Gut Axis and Gut-Brain Axis Function.Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
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- Novel Therapeutic Effects in Rat Spinal Cord Injuries: Recovery of the Definitive and Early Spinal Cord Injury by the Administration of Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 Therapy.Current issues in molecular biology · 2022Article
- Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 as a Therapy for the Disable Myotendinous Junctions in Rats.Biomedicines · 2021Article
- Over-Dose Lithium Toxicity as an Occlusive-like Syndrome in Rats and Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157.Biomedicines · 2021Article
- Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 Therapy for Primary Abdominal Compartment Syndrome in Rats.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeStable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 accelerates the healing of a transected Achilles tendon and a transected quadriceps muscle. It may also be of clinical relevance as a systemic and local peptide treatment for crush injury of a major muscle, such as gastrocnemius muscle complex. BPC 157 is effective without a carrier, and it is presently undergoing trials for inflammatory bowel disease, and no toxicity has so far been reported.
methodsIn crushed rats (force delivered 0.727 Ns/cm2), BPC 157 was applied either intraperitoneally or locally, as a thin cream layer, immediately after injury (sacrifice at 2 h), and once a day for 14 days.
resultsBPC 157 improved muscle healing, macroscopically (less hematoma and edema, no post-injury leg contracture), microscopically, functionally, and also based on enzyme activity (creatine kinase, lactate dehydrogenase, aspartate aminotransferase, alanine aminotransferase).
conclusionBPC 157, at all investigated intervals, given locally or intraperitoneally, accelerated post-injury muscle healing and also helped to restore the full function.
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