In children with non-infectious or acute infectious diseases, acute thymus involution was linked to progressively lower thymic immunomodulating polypeptide production.
In plain wordsIn children with non-infectious or acute infectious diseases, thymus involution was linked to lower production of the body's own thymalin polypeptides.
- Peptide
- Thymalin
- Outcome
- DecreaseThymic polypeptide production during involution
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Outcome group
- Immune response · Immune and inflammation
Source sentences
It is concluded that the acute involution of the thymus in children with non-infectious and acute infectious diseases results in the progressive decrease of the production by the thymus of the immunomodulating polypeptides (thymic hormones) which is restored in the period of recovery.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
The content of the thymalin polypeptides in the thymus is studied in the course of the 1st to 4th stages of the acute thymus involution in children dying from noninfectious and infectious disease.
The results obtained were compared to the level of the circulating thymic factor and the number of T- and 'O' lymphocytes in the circulating blood of children with identical diseases and control group of the same age.
This result measures the body's own Thymalin. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.