Given the cytoprotection concept born in the stomach (innate prevention of the stomach epithelial [16,17] and endothelial [18,19,20,21] cell necrosis that should be extended to other tissue healing), BPC 157, native and stable in human gastric juice can be a cytoprotection mediator as it is not destroyed in human gastric juice for more than 24 h [1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,27,28,29,30]
Cutsem EV, Cuyle PJ, Huijberts S, Yaeger R, Schellens JHM, Elez E, Tabernero J, Fakih M, Montagut C, Peeters M, Desai J, Yoshino T, Ciardiello F, Wasan HS, Kopetz S , Maharry K, Christy-Bittel J, Gollerkeri A, Grothey A
MALT, mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue
Biochemical Journal, 476(24), 38173834