 Thymosin
"Thymosin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
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
|
| MeSH Number(s) |
D06.472.910.850 D12.644.548.869 D12.776.922
|
| Concept/Terms |
|
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more general than "Thymosin".
Below are MeSH descriptors whose meaning is more specific than "Thymosin".
This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Thymosin" by people in this website by year, and whether "Thymosin" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
To see the data from this visualization as text, click here.
| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
|---|
| 1987 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2007 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
To return to the timeline, click here.
Below are the most recent publications written about "Thymosin" by people in Profiles.
-
Huang LC, Jean D, Proske RJ, Reins RY, McDermott AM. Ocular surface expression and in vitro activity of antimicrobial peptides. Curr Eye Res. 2007 Jul-Aug; 32(7-8):595-609.
-
Smart N, Risebro CA, Melville AA, Moses K, Schwartz RJ, Chien KR, Riley PR. Thymosin beta-4 is essential for coronary vessel development and promotes neovascularization via adult epicardium. Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2007 Sep; 1112:171-88.
-
Smart N, Risebro CA, Melville AA, Moses K, Schwartz RJ, Chien KR, Riley PR. Thymosin beta4 induces adult epicardial progenitor mobilization and neovascularization. Nature. 2007 Jan 11; 445(7124):177-82.
-
Eichberg JW, Seeff LB, Lawlor DL, Buskell-Bales Z, Ishak K, Hoofnagle JH, Goldstein AL, Langloss JM. Effect of thymosin immunostimulation with and without corticosteroid immunosuppression on chimpanzee hepatitis B carriers. J Med Virol. 1987 Jan; 21(1):25-37.
-
Steele RW, Eichberg JW, Heberling RL, Eller JJ, Goldstein AL, Kalter SS, Kniker WT. E and EAC rosettes in man and nonhuman primates and the effect of thymosin in vitro. J Med Primatol. 1977; 6(3):163-71.
|
People  People who have written about this concept. _
Similar Concepts
People who have written about this concept.
_
Top Journals
Top journals in which articles about this concept have been published.
|