Tissue repair
This is research information, not medical advice. This page describes what researchers have studied. It does not recommend any use, and a researched outcome is not an established benefit.
What does the research say about peptides studied for tissue repair?
Outcomes researchers measured
- Tendon healing
Rat and cell studies report faster tendon healing and increased fibroblast migration and survival (Chang et al., 2011; Staresinic et al., 2003), but no published human efficacy trial exists. Animal results do not tell us what happens in a person.
- Wound and skin healing
Enhanced alkali-burn wound healing reported in animal models and in cell cultures only (Huang et al., 2015). No human efficacy studies identified.
- Ligament healing
Improved medial collateral ligament healing reported in rats only (Cerovecki et al., 2010). No human studies identified.
- Pain and function (small uncontrolled observations)
Two small uncontrolled case series (a 2021 knee-injection series, n=16; a 2024 interstitial-cystitis pilot, n=12 women) report symptom changes that cannot be attributed to the compound without control groups or blinding.
- Short-term tolerability (not efficacy)
A two-person open-label pilot reported no adverse effects from intravenous BPC-157; two people cannot establish safety, and there were no efficacy endpoints.
Compounds studied for this topic
A note on this topic
Animal evidence only: every outcome here rests on laboratory or animal studies. As of the October 2026 literature search, there is no published, peer-reviewed randomized trial of BPC-157 in humans for any indication. (One 2005 report describes a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled Phase 2 trial of PL-14736, 80 mg enema for 2 weeks, in 53 patients with ulcerative colitis; it appeared as a conference abstract only and was never published as a peer-reviewed paper, so it is not counted as a published trial here.) Absence of trials is not proof the compound does nothing; it means no one can say, from reviewed evidence, what it does in people.