BPC-157 peptide (5 mg vials)

In brief: ALTA PEPTIDES supplies BPC-157 (Body Protection Compound 157) as a 5 mg lyophilised vial for £17.99 (£3.60/mg), with the certificate for the current lot pending publication, held in UK stock and dispatched the same working day before 1pm. Supplied for laboratory research only, not for human consumption.

New to BPC-157? Read our guide, What is BPC-157? Origin, sequence and what the research covers, for what it is, what the research covers and how it is handled.

What is BPC-157?

BPC-157 (Body Protection Compound 157) is a synthetic 15-amino-acid peptide whose sequence is a fragment of a protein found in human gastric juice. It was isolated and characterised by a research group at the University of Zagreb in the early 1990s and has since become the most-studied of the so-called healing peptides, with several hundred published animal studies. Unusually for a peptide, it is stable in acidic conditions, which is why both injectable and oral preparations appear in the literature.

Every BPC-157 vial sold here is lyophilised powder at a specified purity of at least 99% by HPLC, sealed under nitrogen in a 2 mL glass vial, with the lot number on the label; the certificate for the current lot is pending publication on our certificates page.

What the research covers

The BPC-157 literature is broad but almost entirely preclinical. In rodent models the peptide has been reported to accelerate healing of transected Achilles tendon, medial collateral ligament and skeletal muscle; to protect the stomach lining against NSAID and alcohol injury; to promote angiogenesis at wound sites through VEGF and nitric-oxide pathways; and to influence gut-brain signalling through dopaminergic and serotonergic systems. Most of this work comes from a single laboratory (Sikiric and colleagues), which is a limitation worth knowing about. Human data is limited to small uncontrolled reports; no randomised controlled trial in people has been published, and no regulator has licensed it.

In 2023 the US FDA placed BPC-157 in its category of substances that may present significant safety risks in compounding, citing the absence of human safety data rather than evidence of harm. The World Anti-Doping Agency prohibits it under S0 (non-approved substances).

BPC-157 and TB-500

The two peptides are frequently studied together because they act through different mechanisms: BPC-157 on growth-factor signalling and angiogenesis at the injury site, TB-500 (thymosin beta-4) on actin regulation and cell migration. We stock both individually and as the Wolverine Stack (one 5 mg vial of each). See TB-500 for that compound's specification.

Buying BPC-157 in the UK

BPC-157 is not a controlled substance and not a licensed medicine in the UK. It is sold as a laboratory reagent for research use, not for human consumption. Most BPC-157 offered to UK buyers is imported powder sold on the manufacturer's paperwork; ours is held in UK stock, published with its lot certificate of analysis, and dispatched the same working day before 1pm by Royal Mail Tracked 48 in plain packaging. It is supplied as a 5 mg vial; for larger programmes, order several vials from the same lot and the stack discount applies when combined with other compounds.

Names and spellings

BPC157, BPC 157 and BPC-157 peptide all refer to the same pentadecapeptide; the hyphen is a convention rather than part of the name. The compound is also called Body Protection Compound 157 and, in the older literature, PL 14736 or PL-10. Whatever the spelling, the bpc157 UK researchers order from this page is the same lot-tested material.

BPC-157 price (UK)

Prices include VAT. Shipping is £4.95 by Royal Mail Tracked 48, free on orders over £75, and sealed items can be returned within 14 days. Ships from UK stock with the lot certificate for the vial you receive.

Quality and testing

Every lot of BPC-157 is released with its certificate of analysis published on our certificates page against the lot number on the vial label. The certificate for the current lot is pending publication, and ALTA's own independent third-party test of the lot is pending; both are added to the certificates page as they arrive. Specification: ≥ 99% (HPLC), supplied as lyophilised powder, 2 ml glass vial, sealed, 5 mg per vial.

Reconstitution and handling

BPC-157 arrives as a lyophilised cake under an aluminium crimp seal. Let the vial reach room temperature before opening so that condensation does not form on the powder. Swab the stopper with an alcohol swab, draw the chosen volume of bacteriostatic water (our bacteriostatic water guide explains why it is used rather than sterile water) with a sterile syringe, and add it slowly down the inside wall of the vial rather than onto the powder. Swirl gently until clear; never shake, which can denature the peptide. Label the vial with the date and concentration. The peptide calculator converts vial amount and diluent volume into concentration, millilitres and U-100 syringe units for any target amount. Sealed vial: -20 °C, protected from light. Reconstituted: 2 to 8 °C, use within 4 weeks.

Lot traceability

Every BPC-157 vial carries a printed lot number and expiry. The same lot number appears on the certificate of analysis for that lot on our certificates page, which names who issued it (the manufacturer's QC laboratory for a batch certificate, or the outside laboratory for a third-party report) so it can be checked directly. ALTA's own independent test of each lot is published on the same row as it arrives. If the number on your vial does not match a certificate on our site, contact support before using it. Certificates are kept online for the life of the product plus two years.

Related products

TB-500, Wolverine Stack, KPV, and everything else in Recovery & Repair or the full range. Reconstitution supplies: bacteriostatic water, insulin syringes and alcohol swabs.

Related reading in the Journal

• BPC-157 oral vs injectable: why it survives the stomach and what that meansBPC-157 is unusual among peptides in surviving gastric acid, which is why the research includes oral as well as injectable studies and why capsules and sprays are on the market. What each route's studies report and what a lyophilised vial is for.
• What is BPC-157? Origin, sequence and what the research coversWhere the Body Protection Compound came from, why it is unusually stable, and what more than three decades of animal studies have and have not shown.
• Are peptides steroids? Peptides vs steroids vs SARMs explainedPeptides, anabolic steroids and SARMs are three unrelated classes of molecule that get lumped together online. The chemistry, the UK legal status of each, and the WADA position, side by side.
• What are peptides? Amino acid chains, proteins, hormones and synthesisThe chemistry behind the word: what a peptide chain is, where the line with proteins sits, what peptide hormones do, and how a synthetic peptide is built one residue at a time.
• How to buy research peptides in the UK: the supplier checklistTen things to check before ordering from any UK peptide supplier, from lot-matched certificates to where the stock physically sits, and the questions a good supplier will refuse to answer.

Handling and buying guides: How to reconstitute peptides: a laboratory guide, How to store peptides, and how long lyophilised peptides last at room temperature, How to read a peptide certificate of analysis.

Handling and storage

Sealed vial: -20 °C, protected from light. Reconstituted: 2 to 8 °C, use within 4 weeks. Keep sealed until use. Allow the vial to reach room temperature before opening to avoid condensation on the powder. Reconstitute with bacteriostatic water added slowly down the wall of the vial; do not shake. Our calculator covers the arithmetic.