What Selank is

Class and mechanism

Selank is an anxiolytic heptapeptide. A synthetic analogue of the immunomodulatory peptide tuftsin, studied in the Russian literature for anxiolytic effects and BDNF expression.

Where it sits

Wellbeing compounds are grouped by the outcome they are studied for rather than by shared chemistry, so the class column varies widely across the group.

Others in the wellbeing compounds range

Selank sits in the wellbeing compounds group. The compounds below share that grouping, which is the useful starting point when comparing one against another: same group means the comparison is like for like, different group usually means it is not.