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ReviewPharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland)2024

The Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 Pleiotropic Beneficial Activity and Its Possible Relations with Neurotransmitter Activity.

Predrag Sikiric, Alenka Boban Blagaic, Sanja Strbe, Lidija Beketic Oreskovic, Ivana Oreskovic, Suncana Sikiric, Mario Staresinic, Marko Sever, Antonio Kokot, Ivana Jurjevic and 11 more

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Review in Pharmaceuticals (Basel, Switzerland), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 16 papers.

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16citing papers in PubMed
3.2field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

16 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

21 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Predrag SikiricDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-7952-2252
Alenka Boban BlagaicDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Sanja StrbeDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Lidija Beketic OreskovicDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Ivana OreskovicDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Suncana SikiricDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Mario StaresinicDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Marko SeverDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Antonio KokotDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-4836-7536
Ivana JurjevicDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Danijel MatekDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-2912-1135
Luka CoricDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-1965-9660
Ivan KrezicDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Ante TvrdeicDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-8881-2278
Kresimir LueticDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Lovorka Batelja VuleticDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Predrag PavicDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Tomislav MestrovicDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Ivica SjekavicaDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
Anita SkrticDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.ORCID 0000-0002-9275-7283
Sven SeiwerthDepartment of Pharmacology, School of Medicine, University of Zagreb, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia.
University of Zagreb · HRUniversity Hospital Centre Zagreb · HR

Funding

University of Zagreb Grant BM 10106-22-3071
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We highlight the particular aspects of the stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 pleiotropic beneficial activity (not destroyed in human gastric juice, native and stable in human gastric juice, as a cytoprotection mediator holds a response specifically related to preventing or recovering damage as such) and its possible relations with neurotransmitter activity. We attempt to resolve the shortage of the pleiotropic beneficial effects of BPC 157, given the general standard neurotransmitter criteria, in classic terms. We substitute the lack of direct conclusive evidence (i.e., production within the neuron or present in it as a precursor molecule, released eliciting a response on the receptor on the target cells on neurons and being removed from the site of action once its signaling role is complete). This can be a network of interconnected evidence, previously envisaged in the implementation of the cytoprotection effects, consistent beneficial particular evidence that BPC 157 therapy counteracts dopamine, serotonin, glutamate, GABA, adrenalin/noradrenalin, acetylcholine, and NO-system disturbances. This specifically includes counteraction of those disturbances related to their receptors, both blockade and over-activity, destruction, depletion, tolerance, sensitization, and channel disturbances counteraction. Likewise, BPC 157 activates particular receptors (i.e., VGEF and growth hormone). Furthermore, close BPC 157/NO-system relations with the gasotransmitters crossing the cell membrane and acting directly on molecules inside the cell may envisage particular interactions with receptors on the plasma membrane of their target cells. Finally, there is nerve-muscle relation in various muscle disturbance counteractions, and nerve-nerve relation in various encephalopathies counteraction, which is also exemplified specifically by the BPC 157 therapy application.

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cytoprotectionneurotransmitterocclusion/occlusion-like syndromepleiotropic beneficial activitystable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157VEGF

Identifiers

PMID38675421
PMCPMC11053547
OpenAlexW4393944678

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