The effects described below may not translate to humans
For patients with these conditions, a maintenance schedule of injections every one to three months is typical after getting their levels back up
Influence of chemotherapy on the lipid peroxidation and antioxidant status in patients with acute myeloid leukemia
Xiao B, Yang W, Lei D, et al
A subsequent 2014 paper by Chang and colleagues in Molecules showed that BPC-157, applied at 0.10.5 g/mL in vitro, dose- and time-dependently upregulated growth hormone receptor expression at both mRNA and protein levels in cultured rat Achilles tendon fibroblasts a mechanistic in vitro finding for which numeric fold-changes and p-values are not reported in the abstract
The mechanism of action involves simultaneous activation of both GIP and GLP-1 receptors, which are naturally occurring incretin hormones