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Semax

Semax is the heptapeptide Met-Glu-His-Phe-Pro-Gly-Pro, an analogue of the adrenocorticotropin fragment (4-10), reported after intranasal application to affect learning and to be neuroprotective.

emerging

provisional
7 aa
PubChem 9811102
2 citations
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What the evidence says

six tiers, never blended

emerging — human data exists, and it is thin or contested

every claim resolves to its source

All 2 citations resolve to their original source. · 0 posts naming it, 0 members counted once each.

Sequence

M E H F P G P

PubChem CID 9811102: ACTH (4-7), Pro-Gly-Pro-, C37H51N9O10S, 813.9 g/mol. · 7 residues · source pubchem:9811102, fetched not recalled.

Evidence, kept apart

The Atlas never mixes evidence types into one blob. Each claim below carries the tier it actually sits in; an unresolved citation is shown and does not move the page.

Evidence map for Semax. Tier reflects study design, not enthusiasm.
Claim	Tier	Source
Fifteen years of Semax design and study (Russian-language review)	emerging	pmid 9173745
Semax regulates BDNF and trkB in the rat hippocampus	preclinical	pmid 16996037

Unanswered questions

No open questions on file. Either everything about this molecule is known, or nobody has admitted what is not.

Negative findings

failure is information

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