The Science of Therapeutic Peptides · Volume V
Neuroactive, Behavioral & Cognitive
Cognition, mood, and behavior at the peptide level.
9 chapters
- V.1CerebrolysinA pig-brain extract from 1954, four thousand patients of randomised evidence, and the problem of a drug nobody can fully list
- V.2DihexaA fragment of a blood-pressure hormone, a claim of ten million, and a molecule that became a laboratory reagent
- V.3DSIPA molecule pulled from the blood of sleeping rabbits, and the fifty-year argument about whether it does anything
- V.4MIF-1The hypothalamic tripeptide that taught peptide science to look upward
- V.5OS-01Pep 14, OneSkin, and a senomorphic peptide from a progeria screen
- V.6P021Five residues cut from a cytokine too toxic to use, by the two people who found out what the Alzheimer tangle is made of
- V.7Selankand the three names sold beside it — N-Acetyl Selank, N-Acetyl Selank Amidate, Adalank
- V.8The Semax FamilyA Soviet neuropeptide, four products, and the distance between them
- V.9SNAP‑8A peptide designed to relax a muscle it may never reach — and the twenty-year skincare industry built on that hope