A synthetic pentadecapeptide (Gly-Glu-Pro-Pro-Pro-Gly-Lys-Pro-Ala-Asp-Asp-Ala-Gly-Leu-Val), BPC-157 was first isolated from human gastric juice by Predrag Sikiric and Sven Seiwerth at the University of Zagreb School of Medicine in the early 1990s.3 Sikirics laboratory has since published more than 200 studies on the compoundan extraordinary body of work that has attracted both admiration for its breadth and criticism for originating almost entirely from a single research group
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PRP also carries a better safety profile in practice, given decades of clinical use across orthopedics, dermatology, and oral surgery 21
As the first treatment strategy, conventional synthetic (cs) DMARDs like methotrexate, hydroxychloroquine, sulfasalazine, leflunomide, chloroquine, and gold salts should be used as soon as RA is diagnosed
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