In response to the explosion of the unregulated peptides market, the MHRA, the body responsible for licensing and overseeing the use of medicines in the UK, says that it does not "accept attempts to evade medicines regulation" by selling peptides for "research purposes" where evidence indicates they are being used by people
It is used in studies focused on tissue response, cellular signaling, cytoskeletal interaction, and peptide communication pathways
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Pedrosa ML, Furtado MH, Ferreira MCF, Carneiro MM