Quick answer
What is GHK-Cu?
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GHK-Cu is a peptide, grouped on this site under Tissue repair peptides, and the 12 research records kept here are 4 from studies in rats or mice and 8 that do not state what kind of study it is.
The literature search returned 92 records. This site keeps 12 of them, which is 13 per cent of what came back.
What it is
This site puts it in the Tissue repair peptides group.
A copper-binding tripeptide complex; the retrieved literature describes antioxidative activity and gene-expression effects rather than a single receptor target.[1, 2]
Stated in the titles of the cited 2012 Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity and 2018 International Journal of Molecular Sciences papers.
What kind of records
The records kept here are animal and laboratory studies only.
That sentence is produced by counting, not by reading. What was counted: no interventional human trial record; 4 rodent and 0 in vitro records among 12.
What this does not settle
- What it does in a body. Counting records is not reading them, and nothing here has been read in full.
- Whether it causes harm. No adverse-effect row was taken from any source for this entry.
- How long it lasts. No pharmacokinetics source was retrieved for this entry.
- What the other 80 retrieved records say. They are not in this index.
The longer explanation
Where this comes from
The records cited above, in full.
- The human tripeptide GHK-Cu in prevention of oxidative stress and degenerative conditions of aging: implications for cognitive health. Oxid Med Cell Longev (2012). pmid:22666519
- Regenerative and Protective Actions of the GHK-Cu Peptide in the Light of the New Gene Data. Int J Mol Sci (2018). pmid:29986520