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Study · Measured the body's own peptide · 1989

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The thymus in acquired immune deficiency syndrome. Comparison with other types of immunodeficiency diseases, and presence of components of human immunodeficiency virus type 1.

Schuurman HJ, Krone WJ, Broekhuizen R, van Baarlen J, van Veen P, Golstein AL, Huber J, Goudsmit J

The American journal of pathology1 Jun 1989Cited by 57 (Europe PMC)

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Results from this study1

No result from this study comes from a test of the peptide.

Natural levels measured1

These results measure the body's own peptide. Nobody was given the peptide. They are not evidence about taking it. They are left out of key results, evidence counts and charts.

  1. 01HumanEndogenous levelObservational studyOther

    In autopsy thymus specimens, epithelium in the hyperinvoluted state was negative for the body's own thymosin alpha‑1.

    In plain wordsIn thymus samples taken after death, the shrunken thymus tissue did not stain for the body's own thymosin alpha‑1.

    Peptide
    Thymosin alpha-1
    Outcome
    Not applicableThymosin alpha 1 staining in hyperinvoluted thymus epithelium
    Study

    n: not reported in source

    Outcome group
    Immune response · Immune and inflammation

    Source sentences

    Summary
    because the epithelium in the hyperinvoluted state is negative for thymosin alpha 1.
    1 context sentence
    Summary · context
    The authors studied thymus specimens taken at autopsy from eight acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) patients and compared these with those taken from four patients with congenital immunodeficiency (unrelated to an intrinsic thymus defect) and seven patients after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.

    This result measures the body's own Thymosin alpha-1. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.

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  1. Version 3Current

    10 Oct 2026, 08:55 UTC

    Study results updated

  2. Version 2

    9 Oct 2026, 03:03 UTC

    Study data updated · source update from Europe PMC

  3. Version 1

    9 Oct 2026, 03:02 UTC

    First added · source update from Europe PMC

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