Cartalax (AED) — Khavinson Peptide Research Archive

Cartilage-targeted synthetic bioregulator; Khavinson-group work appears in the database mostly as cartilage/chondrocyte keyword hits.

Extract counterpart: None established — this compound exists only as a defined synthetic fragment.

Extract vs synthetic gap: the human outcome data (including the 266-patient mortality cohort) was collected on extracts; vendors sell synthetic fragments. No head-to-head trial exists — evidence does not transfer between them. Details →

Khavinson studies (1 matched, 2023)

Keyword-filtered from the 472-publication database (khavinson.info). EXTRACT/SYNTHETIC tags are title-text heuristics — verification is on the reader. Full tag legend: evidence-tiers.html

[3] [Linkova N., Khavinson V., Diatlova A., Myakisheva S., Ryzhak G. Peptide Regulation of Chondrogenic Stem Cell Differentiation. // International Journal of Molecular Sciences. – 2023. – Vol. 24, Iss. 9, 8415. – 13 p.](https://khavinson.info/assets/files/skan/2023-linkova_khavinson_dyatlova.pdf) DOI: 10.3390/ijms24098415 (2023)syn DOI:10.3390/ijms24098415 [PDF]

Independent (non-Khavinson) studies

None catalogued. To date there are zero independent Western human trials of any Khavinson compound, in any year. Independent in-vitro data exists for Epitalon only (two 2025 studies). If a study belongs here, add it to non-khavinson-research.json and rebuild.

Reddit meta-scrape

0 dedicated posts found.

Neutral / no-effect

No Reddit discussion found in harvested corpus.

Negative reports

One r/Peptides commenter on Russian peptides: 'The data really needs to be replicated more. For cartilage I would recommend Pentosan Polysulfate' (r/eci9hi comment).

MEASURED vs VIBE: 0/0.

Common protocol: No consensus protocol.

Key takeaway: No Reddit community exists for Cartalax. The one commenter who addressed it recommended a different compound (Pentosan) instead.

Measurement protocol — concrete testable endpoints

Joint MRI, COMP and CTX-II cartilage biomarkers, WOMAC score. Pain scale as secondary endpoint only.

All endpoints on one page: measurement-protocols.html · Evidence-tier legend: evidence-tiers.html