BPC 157 and Standard Angiogenic Growth Factors. Gastrointestinal Tract Healing, Lessons from Tendon, Ligament, Muscle and Bone Healing

Seiwerth S, Rucman R, Turkovic B, Sikiric P, et al. · Current Pharmaceutical Design

Argues that the standard growth factors mostly appear as markers raised alongside healing and need carriers and local delivery, whereas the reviewed BPC 157 studies report effect from a free peptide given systemically, orally or locally — the review's own framing of why the two literatures are not comparable.

Population

Comparison of BPC 157 with EGF, FGF and VEGF across gastrointestinal and musculoskeletal healing models

Intervention

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Comparator

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Limitations

Written by the originating network about its own corpus; the growth-factor comparison is qualitative.