In chicken embryos after early partial decapitation, preliminary radioimmunoassays showed a sharp increase in circulating thymic hormones, mainly the body's own thymosin beta‑4, at 17 days of incubation.
In plain wordsIn chicken embryos with the front of the brain removed, the body's own thymosin beta‑4 in the blood rose sharply at 17 days.
- Peptide
- Thymosin beta-4 (human)
- Outcome
- IncreaseCirculating thymosin beta 4 in 17-day-old embryos
- Study
chickenn: not reported in source
Chicken embryos after early partial decapitation- Outcome group
- Endogenous peptide levels · Immune and inflammation
Source sentences
Furthermore, preliminary radioimmunoassays revealed a sharp increase in the values of circulating thymic hormones, mainly thymosin beta 4 in 17-day-old embryos.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Endocrinol., 9: 172-186, 1967) in an attempt to analyze the neuroendocrine immune relationships during ontogeny.
The elimination of the prosencephalon in chickens at 33-38 hr of incubation induced profound structural, histochemical, and morphometric changes in the embryonic development of the thymus gland.
This result measures the body's own Thymosin beta-4 (human). Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.