CJC-1295 DAC

Also known as · CJC-1295 with Drug Affinity Complex · long-acting GHRH analogue (ConjuChem)

01 / Dosing schedule

Cited dosing

CJC-1295 with DAC has real, published human pharmacology from two randomized placebo-controlled ascending-dose trials in healthy adults, but it was never developed past that stage and is not FDA approved. The doses explicitly reported in the abstract are 30 and 60 microg/kg subcutaneously.

Teichman 2006 ascending-dose trials — subQ CJC-1295 in healthy adults

PhaseDose & frequency
Single-dose reported doses30 microg/kg and 60 microg/kg subcutaneously
Other single-dose levelsn.a. — abstract says 'four ascending single doses' without listing the other two
Multiple-dose studytwo or three doses given weekly or biweekly (dose amounts n.a. in the abstract)
Study durations28 days and 49 days
Measured half-life5.8-8.1 days

Source · Teichman SL, Neale A, Lawrence B, Gagnon C, Castaigne J-P, Frohman LA. Prolonged stimulation of growth hormone (GH) and insulin-like growth factor I secretion by CJC-1295, a long-acting analog of GH-releasing hormone, in healthy adults. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2006;91(3):799-805. ↗

Source indication · Pharmacokinetics, pharmacodynamics (GH and IGF-I) and safety in healthy adults aged 21-61 — not a disease indication

Injection frequency
Single dose in study 1; two or three doses at weekly or every-other-week intervals in study 2 (28-day and 49-day studies).
Injection sites
n.a. — the trial report states subcutaneous administration only; no anatomical injection site is given.

02 / Reconstitution

Reconstitution reference

The 2006 trials do not publish a reconstitution procedure. Because trial dosing was weight-based (microg/kg), any vial arithmetic must be done per subject weight; the values below are unit-conversion arithmetic only and are not a dose recommendation.

Vialn.a. — trial product supplied by sponsor; vial size not published
BAC watern.a.
Concentrationn.a.
Example dose30 microg/kg (lowest dose explicitly reported in the trial)
On a U‑100 syringeweight-based; a 70 kg adult at 30 microg/kg = 2.1 mg
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03 / Overview

Protocol overview

CJC-1295 is GHRH(1-29) modified with a Drug Affinity Complex that lets it bind covalently to serum albumin after injection. That is the mechanism behind the measured half-life of 5.8-8.1 days reported by Teichman and colleagues in JCEM in 2006.

The human evidence base is two randomized, placebo-controlled, double-blind ascending-dose trials of 28 and 49 days at two investigational sites, in healthy subjects aged 21-61. The first gave four ascending single subcutaneous doses; the second gave two or three doses weekly or biweekly.

Only two dose levels appear in the public abstract: 30 microg/kg and 60 microg/kg, at which mean peak GH and IGF-I rose above baseline. The remaining two ascending dose levels, and the exact repeat-dose amounts, are not in the abstract, so they are recorded as n.a. rather than reproduced from secondary peptide sites.

Nothing since 2006 has taken CJC-1295 DAC into phase 2 or phase 3 for a defined indication. There is no approved product, no label, and no dosing guidance from any regulator; the trial figures above are pharmacology data in healthy volunteers, not a therapeutic regimen.

04 / References

References

  1. Teichman SL et al. Prolonged stimulation of GH and IGF-I secretion by CJC-1295 in healthy adults. JCEM 2006;91:799-805 (PubMed 16352683) ↗
  2. Teichman et al. 2006 — Semantic Scholar record (confirms 30 or 60 microg/kg subcutaneous) ↗