On his podcast, Andrew Huberman, MD, professor of neurobiology and ophthalmology at Stanford Universitys school of medicine, shared a potential, and slightly gory, origin story for BPC-157
Elevated lactate levels activate GPR81 on endothelial cells, prompting localized vesicular ET-1 release and contributing to vasoconstriction [120]
The partial rescue of the above-described symptomatology can be ascribed to the activity of other transporters such as ATB 0,+ (SLC6A14), MCT9, and probably, OCTN1 (SLC22A4) that accept carnitine with a much lower affinity if compared to OCTN2
Singh AK, Mishra G, Maurya A, Awasthi R, Kumari K, Thakur A, Rai A, Rai GK, Sharma B, Kulkarni GT, Singh SK (2019) Role of TREM2 in Alzheimers disease and its consequences on - amyloid, tau and neurofibrillary tangles
Evidence for those drugs in Duchenne comes from relatively small studies