thymosinn.
/ˈθʌɪməsɪn/ Biochemistry.
An extract of the thymus gland which has a stimulating effect on the immune system (see quots.).
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1966 A. L. Goldstein et al. in Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 56 1010 We wish to report the preparation..from calf thymic tissue of a product which stimulates incorporation of H3-thymidine into mesenteric lymph node cells. The lymphocytopoietic factor, which we term thymosin, is active..in vivo, as well as..in vitro.
1980 H. N. Eisen Immunol. (ed. 2) xviii. 416/2 Thymosin, a mixture of many active low-molecular-weight polypeptides.., probably comes closer than many others to behaving like a natural hormone... It restores immune function to neonatally thymectomized mice.
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