 Thymosin
"Thymosin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Thymosin. A family of heat-stable, polypeptide hormones secreted by the thymus gland. Their biological activities include lymphocytopoiesis, restoration of immunological competence and enhancement of expression of T-cell characteristics and function. They have therapeutic potential in patients having primary or secondary immunodeficiency diseases, cancer or diseases related to aging.
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D013947
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D06.472.910.850 D12.644.548.869 D12.776.922
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| 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thymosin" by people in Profiles.
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Cavasin MA. Therapeutic potential of thymosin-beta4 and its derivative N-acetyl-seryl-aspartyl-lysyl-proline (Ac-SDKP) in cardiac healing after infarction. Am J Cardiovasc Drugs. 2006; 6(5):305-11.
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Cavasin MA, Rhaleb NE, Yang XP, Carretero OA. Prolyl oligopeptidase is involved in release of the antifibrotic peptide Ac-SDKP. Hypertension. 2004 May; 43(5):1140-5.
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Atkinson SJ, Hosford MA, Molitoris BA. Mechanism of actin polymerization in cellular ATP depletion. J Biol Chem. 2004 Feb 13; 279(7):5194-9.
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Johnston-Early A, Cohen MH, Minna JD, Paxton LM, Fossieck BE, Ihde DC, Bunn PA, Matthews MJ, Makuch R. Smoking abstinence and small cell lung cancer survival. An association. JAMA. 1980 Nov 14; 244(19):2175-9.
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Cohen MH, Chretien PB, Ihde DC, Fossieck BE, Makuch R, Bunn PA, Johnston AV, Shackney SE, Matthews MJ, Lipson SD, Kenady DE, Minna JD. Thymosin fraction V and intensive combination chemotherapy. Prolonging the survival of patients with small-cell lung cancer. JAMA. 1979 Apr 27; 241(17):1813-5.
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