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Cerebrolysin

Also called FPF-1070

InjectableEvidence AEvery day
Half-life
variesby component
Typical vial
30 / 50mg
Research amounts
30–50mg

per administration

Common schedule
Every day
Tested in people

A human trial worked out how much to take and how often, so a dosing schedule is shown.

Licensed as a medicine in roughly 40 countries.

The human evidence for Cerebrolysin used the intravenous route. The draw worked out here assumes a subcutaneous injection, so the amount is not a direct read-across.

Work out your draw

These numbers are a starting point — change any of them.

3 mL cartridge · 300 units loaded300units dialled
Concentration
10mg/mL
Volume per draw
3mL
Units to dial
300
Doses per cartridge
1

This is 300 units, past the 60-unit dial. Splitting it across administrations, or using less water to raise the concentration, brings it back into range.

Dial range varies by pen; 1–60 units is the common configuration.

Vial label

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Published research contexts for Cerebrolysin describe 3050 mg per administration. Descriptive only, not a recommendation.

A porcine-brain-derived mixture of low-molecular-weight peptides and free amino acids, not a single molecule, so no single elimination half-life describes it and none is modelled.

A porcine-brain-derived mixture of low-molecular-weight peptides and free amino acids, not a single defined molecule. It is supplied as a sterile solution and dosed by volume — about 30–50 mL given intravenously once daily for 10–21 days, at roughly 215 mg of peptide per mL — not as a milligram amount, so the vial sizes and dose range shown here are nominal placeholders for a calculator that expects milligrams. The human evidence used the intravenous route, so no subcutaneous schedule is established and no schedule table is shown.

Where these numbers come from

  • Heiss WD et al., Stroke 2012;43:630 (CASTA)Cerebrolysin 30 mL intravenously once daily for 10 days after acute ischemic stroke; the global outcome measure did not separate from placebo.

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