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Peptides and soft tissue healing: what research shows

Peptides like Thymosin Beta-4 accelerate connective tissue growth and healing of tendons, muscles, and ligaments. Products are intended for scientific and research purposes only.

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Study findings do not automatically establish clinical benefit, safety, dosing, or suitability for an individual.

This can be muscles, tendons, ligaments, fibrous tissues, nerves, fat, fascia, blood vessels and synovial membranes. Common soft-tissue injuries can include sprains, strains, contusions, tendonitis, or bursitis.

Examples of common injuries that may benefit from injury repair and rehabilitation peptides:

Torn rotator cuff

Ankle Sprain

Diffuse axonal injury

Soft tissue injury

Torn ligament injury

Torn cartilage injury

Achilles tendon injury

Muscle damage

Thymosin Beta-4, the Injury Peptide, has been shown to stimulate the growth of connective tissue, accelerating the rate of repair. This injury peptide is the synthetic version of the human body’s naturally occurring hormone. Further research is being conducted into its possibilities to regenerate-tissue for human heart muscle damaged by heart attack and heart disease after trials on mice showed promising results. It is also non-addictive, safe to use, cuts muscle spasm and helps fight inflammation as well as improving muscle tone and promoting strength.

WarningTHE GOODS OFFERED BY THE SELLER IS INTENDED FOR SCIENTIFIC AND DEVELOPMENT PURPOSES ONLY. The goods offered by the Seller include chemical substances that shall not be used as a drug, medicine, active substance, medical aid, cosmetic product, a substance for production of a cosmetic product neither for human consumption that is any food or food supplement or otherwise similarly used on humans or animals.

References / Links

Bock-Marquette, I., Saxena, A., White, M. D., Dimaio, J. M., & Srivastava, D. (2004). Thymosin β4 activates integrin-linked kinase and promotes cardiac cell migration, survival and cardiac repair. Nature, 432(7016), 466–472. PubMed

Smart, N., Risebro, C. A., Melville, A. A., Moses, K., Schwartz, R. J., Chien, K. R., & Riley, P. R. (2007). Thymosin β4 induces adult epicardial progenitor mobilization and neovascularization. Nature, 445(7124), 177–182. PubMed

Philp, D., Huff, T., Gho, Y. S., Hannappel, E., & Kleinman, H. K. (2003). The actin-binding site on thymosin β4 promotes angiogenesis. FASEB Journal, 17(14), 2103–2105. PubMed

Malinda, K. M., Goldstein, A. L., & Kleinman, H. K. (1997). Thymosin β4 stimulates directional migration of human umbilical vein endothelial cells. FASEB Journal, 11(6), 474–481. PubMed

Crockford, D., Turjman, N., Allan, C., Angel, J., & Clement, J. (2010). Thymosin β4: structure, function, and biological properties supporting current and future clinical applications. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1194, 179–189. PubMed

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