Copper compounds are also used as actives or excipients in cosmetic and pharmaceutical products, e.g., copper peptide for skin regeneration purposes, cupric aspirinate and cupric salicylate for rheumatoid arthritis treatment, copper conjugated dendrimer for anti-tumoral activity, and copper liposome for enhanced stability of doxorubicin 5,6,7,8,9
Before any of that, the careful groups check two unglamorous things about the research-grade GHK-Cu they start with: how pure it is, and exactly how much copper is bound to it
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