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Compound monograph · §4

Kisspeptin-10 — safety

Adverse events as reported, contraindications, warnings, and an explicit statement of what the safety evidence does not establish.

Document identifier
CEI-MN-050/4
Series
Compound monograph
Version
2.2
Published
11 Jun 2025
Last reviewed
11 Jun 2025
Next review
11 Jun 2027
Identifier
10.71829/cei.mono.50
Certainty
Low
Cycle
2025 Q2

§4Safety

§4.1Adverse events reported in controlled trials

Table 4. Adverse events for Kisspeptin-10 as reported in the trial safety tables the Institute holds. Percentages are of randomised participants in the stated trial and arm.

EventActive, %Comparator, %Difference, ppSource
Well tolerated in controlled infusion studiesNo serious adverse events reported across the published human research programme, which is substantial for a compound in this series
Transient flushingReported
HeadacheReported
A difference column is computed by the Institute from the two reported percentages and is not itself a published figure. Confidence intervals for adverse-event differences are not reported in the contributing trials and are not constructed here.

§4.2Contraindications

  • Not established — no marketing authorisation

§4.3Warnings and precautions

  • No marketing authorisation in any jurisdiction
  • The 10-residue and 54-residue forms are pharmacologically distinct and are routinely conflated
  • Very short half-life makes subcutaneous self-administration pharmacologically incoherent for any sustained effect

§4.4What this section does not establish

Related assessments: tolerability of incretin receptor agonists · acute pancreatitis · the rodent thyroid C-cell signal.[1,2]

References cited on this page

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  1. D’Hondt M, Bracke N, Taevernier L, Gevaert B, Verbeke F, Wynendaele E, De Spiegeleer B. Related impurities in peptide medicines. Journal of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Analysis 2014;101:2–30. doi:10.1016/j.jpba.2014.06.012 · PMID 25044089
  2. Manning MC, Chou DK, Murphy BM, Payne RW, Katayama DS. Stability of protein pharmaceuticals: an update. Pharmaceutical Research 2010;27(4):544–575. doi:10.1007/s11095-009-0045-6 · PMID 20143256

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