Most peptides are degraded in the GI tract before they can exert biological effects, but KPVs small size (three amino acids) and PepT1 affinity allow it to reach intestinal tissue intact
doi: 10.3389/fphar.2022.1026182 Received 23 August 2022 Accepted 23 November 2022 Published 14 December 2022 Volume 13 - 2022 Edited by Junmin Zhang, Lanzhou University, China Reviewed by Yurong Lai, Gilead, United States Mei-Hua Qu, Weifang Second Peoples Hospital, China Updates Copyright 2022 He, Feng, Guo, Zhou, Li, Zhang, Zhang, Wang, Wang, Hao, Zhang, Gao, Gu, Zhang, Li and Li
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Gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 is a research-literature naming variant for BPC-157