What is melanotan 2?
Melanotan II is a lab-made drug that switches on melanocortin receptors. It is studied for tanning and sex drive, and came out of research on the same receptor family that PT-141 (bremelanotide) also targets. It is not FDA approved, not licensed in the UK, not approved and banned from supply in Australia, and not approved in Canada. The research on it raises real safety concerns.
Studies in people from the compound pages this answer belongs to
- Melanotan II
- Evaluation of melanotan-II, a superpotent cyclic melanotropic peptide in a pilot phase-I clinical study 1996 PMID 8637402
- Synthetic melanotropic peptide initiates erections in men with psychogenic erectile dysfunction: double-blind, placebo controlled crossover study 1998 PMID 9679884
- Alpha-melanocyte-stimulating hormone-induced eruptive nevi 2009 PMID 19380666
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Part of sexual health and hormone peptides. PT-141, melanotan, oxytocin, gonadorelin, and kisspeptin-10.