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The 5mg format makes it particularly accessible for pilot studies, method development, and programmes at the early stages of incorporating this GH fragment into their experimental design

And the mechanism was confirmed as PepT1-mediated rather than receptor-driven

What changes at 10mg is research capacity: the ability to run full concentration gradients, parallel experimental arms, and extended single-batch studies without the batch-change variability that limits multi-vial 5mg programmes

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