A plain-language guide Selank
Selank
The name of the substance. Not a promise of relief.
Selank is made in a lab. Its protein building blocks form a peptide chain.
Its chain has seven building blocks.
It was developed in Russia for anxiety.
Selank has been offered there as nose drops, according to the maker’s leaflet.
Real substance, separate questions
There is no approved U.S. Selank medicine or official U.S. drug label.
A drug label is the official information that goes with a medicine. It describes uses, limits, and other details.
The name of a substance cannot answer whether it will help the problem you have. For that, look at research in people.
A useful way to ask about it
What problem would this be meant to address, and what study supports that use?
Keep the answer tied to your concern. A claim about anxiety is different from a claim about memory.
Understand the word peptide Read the research in peopleNotes for this chapter
- National Library of Medicine: Selank
The chemical record describes the substance.
- FDA records: approval search
The approval information was checked on September 30, 2026.
The maker’s Russian leaflet
The source for the anxiety purpose and nose-drop form.