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  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,703 Views
38 Pages

Antiarrhythmic Sotalol, Occlusion/Occlusion-like Syndrome in Rats, and Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 Therapy

  • Ivica Premuzic Mestrovic,
  • Ivan Maria Smoday,
  • Luka Kalogjera,
  • Ivan Krezic,
  • Helena Zizek,
  • Hrvoje Vranes,
  • Vlasta Vukovic,
  • Katarina Oroz,
  • Ivan Skorak and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 14 authors

We focused on the first demonstration that antiarrhythmics, particularly class II and class III antiarrhythmic and beta-blocker sotalol can induce severe occlusion/occlusion-like syndrome in rats. In this syndrome, as in similar syndromes with perman...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
5,327 Views
41 Pages

Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 Therapy: Effect on Reperfusion Following Maintained Intra-Abdominal Hypertension (Grade III and IV) in Rats

  • Marijan Tepes,
  • Ivan Krezic,
  • Hrvoje Vranes,
  • Ivan Maria Smoday,
  • Luka Kalogjera,
  • Helena Zizek,
  • Vlasta Vukovic,
  • Katarina Oroz,
  • Katarina Kasnik Kovac and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 15 authors

2 November 2023

Given in reperfusion, the use of stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 is an effective therapy in rats. It strongly counteracted, as a whole, decompression/reperfusion-induced occlusion/occlusion-like syndrome following the worst circumstances of a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
19 Citations
11,963 Views
39 Pages

Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 as Useful Cytoprotective Peptide Therapy in the Heart Disturbances, Myocardial Infarction, Heart Failure, Pulmonary Hypertension, Arrhythmias, and Thrombosis Presentation

  • Predrag Sikiric,
  • Mario Udovicic,
  • Ivan Barisic,
  • Diana Balenovic,
  • Gordana Zivanovic Posilovic,
  • Dean Strinic,
  • Sandra Uzun,
  • Suncana Sikiric,
  • Ivan Krezic and
  • Sven Seiwerth
  • + 15 authors

In heart disturbances, stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 especial therapy effects combine the therapy of myocardial infarction, heart failure, pulmonary hypertension arrhythmias, and thrombosis prevention and reversal. The shared therapy effect...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
9,693 Views
13 Pages

Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 and Intestinal Anastomoses Therapy in Rats—A Review

  • Salem Bajramagic,
  • Marko Sever,
  • Fran Rasic,
  • Mario Staresinic,
  • Anita Skrtic,
  • Lidija Beketic Oreskovic,
  • Ivana Oreskovic,
  • Sanja Strbe,
  • Svjetlana Loga Zec and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 7 authors

17 August 2024

By introducing the healing of many distinctive anastomoses by BPC 157 therapy, this review practically deals with the concept of the resection and reconnection of the hollow parts of the gastrointestinal tract as one of the cornerstones of visceral s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,360 Views
26 Pages

Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 Therapy of Rat Glaucoma

  • Tamara Kralj,
  • Antonio Kokot,
  • Mirna Zlatar,
  • Sanja Masnec,
  • Katarina Kasnik Kovac,
  • Marija Milkovic Perisa,
  • Lovorka Batelja Vuletic,
  • Ana Giljanovic,
  • Sanja Strbe and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 9 authors

Cauterization of three episcleral veins (open-angle glaucoma model) induces venous congestion and increases intraocular pressure in rats. If not upgraded, one episcleral vein is regularly unable to acquire and take over the whole function, and glauco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
15,473 Views
30 Pages

Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 as a Therapy for the Disable Myotendinous Junctions in Rats

  • Mladen Japjec,
  • Katarina Horvat Pavlov,
  • Andreja Petrovic,
  • Mario Staresinic,
  • Bozidar Sebecic,
  • Matko Buljan,
  • Hrvoje Vranes,
  • Ana Giljanovic,
  • Domagoj Drmic and
  • Sikiric Predrag
  • + 8 authors

(1) Aim: The stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 is known to heal transected muscle, tendon, and ligament. Thereby, in this study, we investigated the effect of BPC 157 on the dissection of the quadriceps tendon from the quadriceps muscle in rats...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,749 Views
26 Pages

Occluded Superior Mesenteric Artery and Vein. Therapy with the Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157

  • Mario Knezevic,
  • Slaven Gojkovic,
  • Ivan Krezic,
  • Helena Zizek,
  • Dominik Malekinusic,
  • Borna Vrdoljak,
  • Tamara Knezevic,
  • Hrvoje Vranes,
  • Domagoj Drmic and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 16 authors

Background. We investigated the occluded essential vessel tributaries, both arterial and venous, occluded superior mesenteric vein and artery in rats, consequent noxious syndrome, peripherally and centrally. As therapy, we hypothesized the rapidly ac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
9,495 Views
17 Pages

Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 Therapy for Monocrotaline-Induced Pulmonary Hypertension in Rats Leads to Prevention and Reversal

  • Mario Udovicic,
  • Marko Sever,
  • Lovro Kavur,
  • Kristina Loncaric,
  • Ivan Barisic,
  • Diana Balenovic,
  • Gordana Zivanovic Posilovic,
  • Dean Strinic,
  • Sandra Uzun and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 7 authors

Background. Monocrotaline selectively injures the lung’s vascular endothelium and induces pulmonary arterial hypertension. The stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 acts as a prototype cytoprotective agent that maintains endothelium, and its applic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,663 Views
36 Pages

Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 as Therapy for Inferior Caval Vein Embolization: Recovery of Sodium Laurate-Post-Embolization Syndrome in Rats

  • Ivan Maria Smoday,
  • Ivan Krezic,
  • Luka Kalogjera,
  • Vlasta Vukovic,
  • Helena Zizek,
  • Marija Skoro,
  • Katarina Kasnik Kovac,
  • Hrvoje Vranes,
  • Ivan Barisic and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 18 authors

23 October 2023

After inferior caval vein embolization therapy, post-embolization syndrome (sodium laurate 10 mg/kg, 0.1 mL into rat inferior caval vein, assessment at 15, 30, 60 min, prime lung lesions, thromboemboli occluding lung vessels), as a severe occlusion/o...

  • Review
  • Open Access
23 Citations
26,553 Views
40 Pages

Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 and Striated, Smooth, and Heart Muscle

  • Mario Staresinic,
  • Mladen Japjec,
  • Hrvoje Vranes,
  • Andreja Prtoric,
  • Helena Zizek,
  • Ivan Krezic,
  • Slaven Gojkovic,
  • Ivan Maria Smoday,
  • Katarina Oroz and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 15 authors

12 December 2022

First, we review the definitively severed myotendinous junction and recovery by the cytoprotective stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 therapy, its healing that might combine both transected and detached tendon and transected muscle, ligament and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
11,424 Views
37 Pages

Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 as Therapy After Surgical Detachment of the Quadriceps Muscle from Its Attachments for Muscle-to-Bone Reattachment in Rats

  • Danijel Matek,
  • Irena Matek,
  • Eva Staresinic,
  • Mladen Japjec,
  • Ivan Bojanic,
  • Alenka Boban Blagaic,
  • Lidija Beketic Oreskovic,
  • Ivana Oreskovic,
  • Tihomil Ziger and
  • Ivica Brizic
  • + 10 authors

Background: This is a novel rat study using native peptide therapy, focused on reversing quadriceps muscle-to-bone detachment to reattachment and stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 per-oral therapy for shared muscle healing and function restorat...

  • Review
  • Open Access
3 Citations
16,518 Views
48 Pages

Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 as a Therapy and Safety Key: A Special Beneficial Pleiotropic Effect Controlling and Modulating Angiogenesis and the NO-System

  • Predrag Sikiric,
  • Sven Seiwerth,
  • Anita Skrtic,
  • Mario Staresinic,
  • Sanja Strbe,
  • Antonia Vuksic,
  • Suncana Sikiric,
  • Dinko Bekic,
  • Dragan Soldo and
  • Ivan Dobric
  • + 6 authors

Although approached through many concepts, the pleiotropic healing issue, specifically, maintaining/reestablishing tissue integrity, remains a central challenge in pharmacology, particularly when the process is misdirected or not properly controlled....

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
9,766 Views
41 Pages

Therapy Effect of the Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 on Acute Pancreatitis as Vascular Failure-Induced Severe Peripheral and Central Syndrome in Rats

  • Ivan Maria Smoday,
  • Igor Petrovic,
  • Luka Kalogjera,
  • Hrvoje Vranes,
  • Helena Zizek,
  • Ivan Krezic,
  • Slaven Gojkovic,
  • Ivan Skorak,
  • Klaudija Hriberski and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 10 authors

We revealed the therapy effect of the stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 (10 μg/kg, 10 ng/kg ig or po) with specific activation of the collateral rescuing pathways, the azygos vein, on bile duct ligation in particular, and acute pancreatitis...

  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,923 Views
33 Pages

Acute Compartment Syndrome and Intra-Abdominal Hypertension, Decompression, Current Pharmacotherapy, and Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 Solution

  • Predrag Sikiric,
  • Sven Seiwerth,
  • Anita Skrtic,
  • Mario Staresinic,
  • Sanja Strbe,
  • Antonia Vuksic,
  • Suncana Sikiric,
  • Dinko Bekic,
  • Toni Penovic and
  • Ivan Dobric
  • + 9 authors

In this study, pharmacotherapies of abdominal compartment syndrome (ACS) and intra-abdominal hypertension (IAH) in animal studies were reviewed from the perspective of ACS/IAH as failed cytoprotection issues, as non-specific injuries, and from the po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,494 Views
41 Pages

Innate Vascular Failure by Application of Neuroleptics, Amphetamine, and Domperidone Rapidly Induced Severe Occlusion/Occlusion-like Syndromes in Rats and Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 as Therapy

  • Sanja Strbe,
  • Ivan Maria Smoday,
  • Ivan Krezic,
  • Luka Kalogjera,
  • Vlasta Vukovic,
  • Helena Zizek,
  • Slaven Gojkovic,
  • Hrvoje Vranes,
  • Ivan Barisic and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 11 authors

Even before behavioral disturbances, neuroleptics, amphetamine, and domperidone application rapidly emerged severe occlusion/occlusion-like syndrome, shared innate vascular and multiorgan failure in rats, comparable to occlusion/occlusion-like syndro...

  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
8,256 Views
31 Pages

Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157—Possible Novel Therapy of Glaucoma and Other Ocular Conditions

  • Predrag Sikiric,
  • Antonio Kokot,
  • Tamara Kralj,
  • Mirna Zlatar,
  • Sanja Masnec,
  • Ratimir Lazic,
  • Kristina Loncaric,
  • Katarina Oroz,
  • Marko Sablic and
  • Mario Staresinic
  • + 14 authors

24 July 2023

Recently, stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 therapy by activation of collateral pathways counteracted various occlusion/occlusion-like syndromes, vascular, and multiorgan failure, and blood pressure disturbances in rats with permanent major ves...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
22,055 Views
41 Pages

The Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 Pleiotropic Beneficial Activity and Its Possible Relations with Neurotransmitter Activity

  • Predrag Sikiric,
  • Alenka Boban Blagaic,
  • Sanja Strbe,
  • Lidija Beketic Oreskovic,
  • Ivana Oreskovic,
  • Suncana Sikiric,
  • Mario Staresinic,
  • Marko Sever,
  • Antonio Kokot and
  • Sven Seiwerth
  • + 11 authors

We highlight the particular aspects of the stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 pleiotropic beneficial activity (not destroyed in human gastric juice, native and stable in human gastric juice, as a cytoprotection mediator holds a response specific...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
6,427 Views
31 Pages

Robert’s Intragastric Alcohol-Induced Gastric Lesion Model as an Escalated General Peripheral and Central Syndrome, Counteracted by the Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157

  • Slaven Gojkovic,
  • Ivan Krezic,
  • Hrvoje Vranes,
  • Helena Zizek,
  • Domagoj Drmic,
  • Lovorka Batelja Vuletic,
  • Marija Milavic,
  • Suncana Sikiric,
  • Irma Stilinovic and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 14 authors

23 September 2021

We redefined Robert’s prototypical cytoprotection model, namely the intragastric administration of 96% alcohol in order to generate a general peripheral and central syndrome similar to that which occurs when major central or peripheral veins are occl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
9,672 Views
27 Pages

Novel Therapeutic Effects in Rat Spinal Cord Injuries: Recovery of the Definitive and Early Spinal Cord Injury by the Administration of Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 Therapy

  • Darko Perovic,
  • Marija Milavic,
  • Stjepan Dokuzovic,
  • Ivan Krezic,
  • Slaven Gojkovic,
  • Hrvoje Vranes,
  • Igor Bebek,
  • Vide Bilic,
  • Nenad Somun and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 10 authors

Recently, marked therapeutic effects pertaining to the recovery of injured rat spinal cords (1 min compression injury of the sacrocaudal spinal cord (S2-Co1) resulting in tail paralysis) appeared after a single intraperitoneal administration of the s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,815 Views
19 Pages

Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 Heals Established Vesicovaginal Fistula and Counteracts Stone Formation in Rats

  • Domagoj Rasic,
  • Anita Zenko Sever,
  • Fran Rasic,
  • Sanja Strbe,
  • Zarko Rasic,
  • Antonija Djuzel,
  • Bozidar Duplancic,
  • Alenka Boban Blagaic,
  • Anita Skrtic and
  • Marko Sever
  • + 2 authors

13 September 2021

With the stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 therapy known to heal various both external and internal rat fistulas, we attempt to approach vesicovaginal fistula, continuous urine leaking through vagina, bladder stones, and a possible therapy solu...

  • Comment
  • Open Access
1 Citations
7,832 Views
8 Pages

28 September 2025

The healing issue is a central, not completely understood, problem in pharmacology, approached by many concepts. One of the most well-known is Robert’s and Szabo’s concept of cytoprotection, which holds innate cell (epithelial (Robert), e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,220 Views
40 Pages

Over-Dose Lithium Toxicity as an Occlusive-like Syndrome in Rats and Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157

  • Sanja Strbe,
  • Slaven Gojkovic,
  • Ivan Krezic,
  • Helena Zizek,
  • Hrvoje Vranes,
  • Ivan Barisic,
  • Dean Strinic,
  • Tatjana Orct,
  • Jaksa Vukojevic and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 10 authors

Due to endothelial impairment, high-dose lithium may produce an occlusive-like syndrome, comparable to permanent occlusion of major vessel-induced syndromes in rats; intracranial, portal, and caval hypertension, and aortal hypotension; multi-organ dy...

  • Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
33,807 Views
30 Pages

Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 May Recover Brain–Gut Axis and Gut–Brain Axis Function

  • Predrag Sikiric,
  • Slaven Gojkovic,
  • Ivan Krezic,
  • Ivan Maria Smoday,
  • Luka Kalogjera,
  • Helena Zizek,
  • Katarina Oroz,
  • Hrvoje Vranes,
  • Vlasta Vukovic and
  • Sven Seiwerth
  • + 14 authors

30 April 2023

Conceptually, a wide beneficial effect, both peripherally and centrally, might have been essential for the harmony of brain–gut and gut–brain axes’ function. Seen from the original viewpoint of the gut peptides’ significance a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,884 Views
11 Pages

Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy Reveals Molecular Changes in Blood Vessels of Rats Treated with Pentadecapeptide BPC 157

  • Ozren Gamulin,
  • Katarina Oroz,
  • Luka Coric,
  • Maria Krajacic,
  • Marko Skrabic,
  • Vilim Dretar,
  • Sanja Strbe,
  • Jasminka Talapko,
  • Martina Juzbasic and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 9 authors

Recently, it was found that when confronted with major vessel occlusion and vascular failure, stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157 therapy might rapidly functionally improve minor vessels to take over the function of disabled major vessels, reorga...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
9,273 Views
38 Pages

Stable Gastric Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 May Counteract Myocardial Infarction Induced by Isoprenaline in Rats

  • Ivan Barisic,
  • Diana Balenovic,
  • Mario Udovicic,
  • Darija Bardak,
  • Dean Strinic,
  • Josipa Vlainić,
  • Hrvoje Vranes,
  • Ivan Maria Smoday,
  • Ivan Krezic and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 13 authors

We revealed that the stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157, a useful peptide therapy against isoprenaline myocardial infarction, as well as against isoprenaline myocardial reinfarction, may follow the counteraction of the recently described occlusi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
15,036 Views
33 Pages

BPC 157 Therapy and the Permanent Occlusion of the Superior Sagittal Sinus in Rat: Vascular Recruitment

  • Slaven Gojkovic,
  • Ivan Krezic,
  • Hrvoje Vranes,
  • Helena Zizek,
  • Domagoj Drmic,
  • Katarina Horvat Pavlov,
  • Andrea Petrovic,
  • Lovorka Batelja Vuletic,
  • Marija Milavic and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 9 authors

We show the complex syndrome of the occluded superior sagittal sinus, brain swelling and lesions and multiple peripheral organs lesions in rat. Recovery goes centrally and peripherally, with the stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157, which alleviat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
164 Views
26 Pages

Tracheocutaneous Fistula Resolved by Pentadecapeptide BPC 157 Therapy Through the NO-System—Triple NO-Agent Approach in Rats

  • Goran Madzarac,
  • Tomislav Becejac,
  • Toni Penovic,
  • Dominik Drazenovic,
  • Lucija Kralj,
  • Marta Popović Dolic,
  • Suncana Sikiric,
  • Lidija Beketic Oreskovic,
  • Ivana Oreskovic and
  • Predrag Sikiric
  • + 13 authors

14 January 2026

Background/Objectives: This 7-day rat tracheocutaneous fistula study considered the not-studied issues of tracheocutaneous fistula course, wound healing, and fistula in the NO-system relations. Therefore, we focused on fistulas’ severe course,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,089 Views
57 Pages

28 November 2025

To better address the challenge of corneal ulcer healing, with already available standard agents, and those recently introduced, such as stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157, we introduced a novel conceptual framework—the “triad”...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,002 Views
14 Pages

From Selye’s and Szabo’s Cysteamine-Duodenal Ulcer in Rats to Dopamine in the Stomach: Therapy Significance and Possibilities

  • Predrag Sikiric,
  • Alenka Boban Blagaic,
  • Ivan Krezic,
  • Helena Zizek,
  • Luka Kalogjera,
  • Ivan Maria Smoday,
  • Vlasta Vukovic,
  • Katarina Oroz,
  • Helen Marie Chiddenton and
  • Sven Seiwerth
  • + 15 authors

7 December 2023

We reviewed gastric ulcer healing by dopamine considering several distinctive duodenal key points. Selye and Szabo describe the cysteamine-induced duodenal ulcer in rats as a duodenal stress ulcer in patients. Szabo’s cysteamine duodenal ulcer...