What is Cortexin?
The short answer
Cortexin is a protein.
What it is
Cortexin: Animal cerebral-cortex polypeptide extract.
What people look into
Brain
- 3 sources
- Status as of
- How we source
- Ellum doesn't sell peptides.
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What it is
- Also known as
- cortexine, korteksin
Regulatory status
Approved outside the US How we label status
As of October 4, 2026, Cortexin is not FDA-approved for any use and is not on FDA's 503A bulks list.
- Federal (FDA)
- Not FDA-approved (no drugsfda/DailyMed record)
- 503A compounding
- No category; not on 216.23 as of 2026-10-07 (as of October 7, 2026)
- WADA 2026
- Not named; approved in Russia, so S0 does not apply
References
Sources as of October 4, 2026