Free GHK and the chelated form behave differently at the cellular level, which is one reason researchers specifically study the copper complex rather than the raw tripeptide alone
Novo in its press announcement called this effect statistically significant and superior to cagrilintide and semaglutide, which elicited weight-loss of 11.8% and 16.1% at the same time point, respectively
Cheng X, Manshouri T, Huang P, Golemovic M, Zingaro R, Freireich E, Andreeff M , Gale RP, Kantarjian H, Verstovsek S
The protein samples were mixed with NuPAGE LDS sample buffer (ThermoFisher, Paisley, UK) and boiled at 95 C for 10 min
GHK-Cu works through both direct enzymatic pathways (copper-dependent tissue remodeling) and gene expression modulation (turning repair genes on and inflammatory genes off)
a = first type error = 0.05