There is also a ClinicalTrials.gov listing for a phase 1 study described as assessing safety and pharmacokinetics of BPC-157 in healthy volunteers
From there, it can enter the bloodstream, where it seems to function as a signal conveying information about the energetic state of the cell to other tissues
GHK has been proposed to function physiologically as a copper-delivery peptide that exchanges copper with albumin and with cellular copper-binding proteins, contributing to the regulated movement of copper through plasma and into tissues
What Does GHK-Cu Do in the First Place
In domains ranging from soft tissue engineering, dermal wound healing, vascular graft development, to organoid integration, the blend may be deployed in multiple experimental configurations
It can push stem or progenitor cells towards repair phenotypes and it advances regeneration-specific cell cycle genes