This 2019 preclinical study evaluated the therapeutic effects of BPC 157, a stable gastric pentadecapeptide, on spinal cord injury (SCI) in rats. Following laminectomy and compression injury at the L2–L3 level, rats received a single intraperitoneal injection of BPC 157 (2 or 200 μg/kg) or saline 10 minutes post-injury. BPC