Evidence base — read this first
Part of a family of short synthetic peptides (2-4 amino acids) developed by Vladimir Khavinson's research group, each targeted at a specific tissue/organ. The evidence base for this entire peptide family shares the same limitation: it's concentrated almost entirely within this one research lineage (largely the same institute, often the same handful of authors), is mostly preclinical (rodent, cell-culture) or small Russian human pilot work, and hasn't been independently replicated by unaffiliated Western labs in a way this research pass could verify. None of these compounds is FDA or EMA approved for human use anywhere.
Benefits
Cortagen (Ala-Glu-Asp-Pro) is pitched as a cerebral-cortex peptide for cognitive function/neuroprotection within the same research program. No independently-verified specific study was confirmed for this compound in this research pass.
What does this actually target?+
The adrenal cortex specifically — part of the Khavinson bioregulator family, aimed at supporting stress-response and adrenal-function signaling through the same short-peptide, organ-specific mechanism as the rest of the family.
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