"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.
| Descriptor ID |
D013947
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D06.472.910.850 D12.644.548.869 D12.776.922
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| 1999 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2014 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thymosin" by people in Profiles.
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Kumar A, Patel A, Duvalsaint L, Desai M, Marks ED. Thymosin ?4 coated nanofiber scaffolds for the repair of damaged cardiac tissue. J Nanobiotechnology. 2014 Mar 24; 12:10.
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Elliott K, Sakamuro D, Basu A, Du W, Wunner W, Staller P, Gaubatz S, Zhang H, Prochownik E, Eilers M, Prendergast GC. Bin1 functionally interacts with Myc and inhibits cell proliferation via multiple mechanisms. Oncogene. 1999 Jun 17; 18(24):3564-73.
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Komaki R, Pajak TF, Byhardt RW, Emami B, Asbell SO, Roach M, Pedersen JE, Curran WJ, Lattin P, Russell AH, et al. Analysis of early and late deaths on RTOG non-small cell carcinoma of the lung trials: comparison with CALGB 8433. Lung Cancer. 1993 Dec; 10(3-4):189-97.