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A Guha

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PubMed1972

Purification and biological activity of thymosin, a hormone of the thymus gland.

The purification and chemical properties of thymosin, obtained from bovine thymus tissue, are described. The biological activity of the thymic hormone has been assessed by a newly developed rosette assay, which permits measurement of thymus-dependent lymphoid cells. Thymosin activity is associated with a physico-chemically homogeneous protein of molecular weight 12,600. The hormonal activity is evident in in vitro incubation assay, after injection into adult thymectomized mice, and in prolonging survival of neonatally thymectomized mice and the reconstitution of their response to a skin allograft.

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PubMed1971

Appearance of T-cell markers in bone marrow rosette-forming cells after incubation with thymosin, a thymic hormone.

After incubation with thymosin, a thymic hormone, normal bone marrow rosette-forming cells acquire T-cell characteristics, including increased sensitivity to azathioprine, anti-lymphocyte serum, and anti-theta serum. This activity of thymosin provides a new sensitive and reproducible bioassay for thymosin, and is well correlated with an in vivo graft-versus-host assay. In addition, incubation of spleen cells from adult thymectomized mice with thymosin in vitro restores to normal their diminished sensitivity to azathioprine and anti-lymphocte serum.

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