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Serious side effects are rare when proper dosing guidelines are followed

Attenuated [PMID: 20388953] Laboratory literature summary: Over-exposure level insulin and stable gastric pentadecapeptide BPC 157

Maintaining an adequate GSH redox status and 25-hydroxy-vitamin D levels will have the potential to reduce oxidative stress, enhance immunity and diminish the adverse clinical consequences of COVID-19 especially in African American communities having glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase (G6PD) deficiency, enzyme necessary to prevent GSH exhaustion and depletion (213, 310)

Figure 3 below summarizes these processes, highlighting the interplay between bacterial infection, immune mediators (e.g., TNF-, IL-6, transforming growth factor-beta [TGF-], IL-10), and cellular actors (e.g., neutrophils, M1/M2 macrophages, fibroblasts, keratinocytes, endothelial cells) during wound healing [43, 48]