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What is Noopept?
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Noopept is a peptide, grouped on this site under Neuroactive peptides, and the 12 research records kept here are 8 from studies in rats or mice and 4 that do not state what kind of study it is.
The literature search returned 86 records. This site keeps 12 of them, which is 14 per cent of what came back.
What it is
This site puts it in the Neuroactive peptides group.
A proline-containing dipeptide; the retrieved records report effects on voltage-gated calcium and potassium channels, NGF and BDNF expression, and TRPV1-related signalling in rodent models.[1, 2, 3]
Stated in the titles of the cited 1997 General Pharmacology, 2008 Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine and 2021 Molecular Neurobiology papers.
What kind of records
The records kept here are animal and laboratory studies only.
That sentence is produced by counting, not by reading. What was counted: no interventional human trial record; 8 rodent and 0 in vitro records among 12.
What this does not settle
- What it does in a body. Counting records is not reading them, and nothing here has been read in full.
- Whether it causes harm. No adverse-effect row was taken from any source for this entry.
- How long it lasts. No pharmacokinetics source was retrieved for this entry.
- What the other 74 retrieved records say. They are not in this index.
The longer explanation
Where this comes from
The records cited above, in full.
- The effects of piracetam and its novel peptide analogue GVS-111 on neuronal voltage-gated calcium and potassium channels. General pharmacology (1997). pmid:9195198
- Noopept stimulates the expression of NGF and BDNF in rat hippocampus. Bulletin of experimental biology and medicine (2008). pmid:19240853
- Noopept Attenuates Diabetes-Mediated Neuropathic Pain and Oxidative Hippocampal Neurotoxicity via Inhibition of TRPV1 Channel in Rats. Molecular neurobiology (2021). pmid:34241806