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Review
. 2025 Aug 12.
doi: 10.1007/s12178-025-09990-7. Online ahead of print.

Regeneration or Risk? A Narrative Review of BPC-157 for Musculoskeletal Healing

Flynn P McGuire  1 , Riley Martinez  2 , Annika Lenz  3 , Lee Skinner  4 , Daniel M Cushman  2   5
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Regeneration or Risk? A Narrative Review of BPC-157 for Musculoskeletal Healing

Flynn P McGuire et al. Curr Rev Musculoskelet Med. .
No abstract available

Keywords: Musculoskeletal medicine; Pentadecapeptide; Research gaps; Scoping review.

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Declarations. Competing Interests: The authors declare no competing interests. Conflict of interest: Flynn McGuire, Riley Martinez, Annika Lenz, Lee Skinner, and Dan Cushman declare that they have no conflict of interest. Human and Animal Rights and Informed Consent: This article does not contain any studies with human or animal subjects performed by any of the authors.

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