The body naturally produces peptides, but synthetic peptides can be used to supplement or enhance certain biological functions
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is affiliated with the Medicine and Research Services, Department of Veterans Affairs Hospital, Tennessee Valley Healthcare System, Nashville, TN, USA and is supported by the Krick-Brooks Chair in Nephrology, by NIH grants (R01-DK081646, R01-DK080821 and R01-DK101791), and by a Department of Veterans Affairs Merit Award (1I01BX002348)
In GHK-Cu, it denotes that the tripeptide glycyl-L-histidyl-L-lysine (GHK) is bound to a copper(II) ion, forming the copper-peptide complex researchers study the Cu specifically distinguishes the copper-bound complex from the standalone GHK peptide, which research has shown behaves differently without the copper ion attached
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