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50mg / 1.2mL
Staff-prepared solution
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- 50mg / 1.2mL
- Format
- Staff-prepared solution
Bear Biotech catalogue
GHK-Cu
Copper-binding tripeptide research material
- Copper binding
- Extracellular matrix
- Skin-cell models
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Lyophilised powder
- Strength
- 50mg
- Format
- Lyophilised powder
Research overview
What is GHK-Cu?
GHK-Cu is one of the most established small copper peptides in laboratory research, with decades of work spanning copper binding, extracellular-matrix biology, fibroblast activity, collagen-related pathways and tissue-remodelling models. Its research footprint is broader than most catalogue peptides, but large controlled human trials remain limited.
Cell and animal evidence; established cosmetic research context
Research focus
Key research areas
GHK-Cu research: copper signalling and tissue biology
GHK-Cu is a copper-binding tripeptide complex examined in cell and animal models involving copper stoichiometry, fibroblast signalling and extracellular-matrix endpoints. Published findings concern defined experimental materials and do not establish the identity, quality, safety, efficacy or equivalence of Bear Biotech catalogue material.
- Copper binding
- Extracellular matrix
- Skin-cell models
Representative primary research
Representative research
An in-vitro study examined the chemically named GHK-Cu complex in fibroblast cultures.
- The tripeptide-copper complex GHK-Cu stimulates matrix metalloproteinase-2 expression by fibroblast cultures ↗ Original cell-culture research only.
These sources provide research context only. They do not verify the identity, quality or equivalence of a Bear Biotech catalogue batch; the matched lot-specific batch record remains controlling.
Specifications
Product information
- Material identity
- GHK-Cu
- Research category
- Copper-binding tripeptide research material
- Evidence position
- Cell and animal evidence; established cosmetic research context
- Recorded formats
- Staff-prepared solution · Lyophilised powder
- Batch-record basis
- The matched lot-specific record controls identity and analytical claims.
- Intended use
- Controlled laboratory research only.
Research questions
Evidence and identity questions
How does copper coordination define the GHK-Cu research identity?
The GHK peptide forms a copper complex, so copper binding and the identity of that complex are central to experiments involving signalling, redox context and extracellular-matrix biology.
Why are fibroblasts and extracellular-matrix endpoints prominent in GHK-Cu studies?
Fibroblast and matrix models allow researchers to measure gene expression, cell behaviour and collagen-related or remodelling endpoints under controlled conditions. Those laboratory observations do not establish a therapeutic outcome.
What separates research-grade GHK-Cu material from a finished cosmetic formulation?
Research material is characterised by its stated copper-complex identity, concentration and analytical record. A finished cosmetic formulation also contains a vehicle, excipients and a delivery system, so evidence for one cannot be assigned automatically to the other.
Batch documentation
Lot-specific records stay connected to the order
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Controlled laboratory research material
Not for human or veterinary consumption. Administration, dosing and therapeutic guidance are not provided.