In research settings, KPV has been studied for anti-inflammatory signaling, intestinal inflammation models, mucosal immune activity, and barrier-related repair pathways
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It pushes those cells toward the wound, helps them survive oxidative stress, and switches on a signaling complex called FAK-paxillin that lets them physically crawl to the damage (2011)