Fetal mouse thymic epithelial cells in a permselective polymer membrane produced physiologic amounts of thymosin alpha‑1 during 5 days of in vitro culture.
In plain wordsIn cells, encapsulated mouse thymus cells made the body's own thymosin alpha‑1 in normal amounts for 5 days.
- Peptide
- Thymosin alpha-1
- Outcome
- Not applicableThymosin alpha-1 production by encapsulated thymic epithelial cells
- Study
mousen: not reported in source
Encapsulated fetal mouse thymic epithelial cells, in vitro culture for 5 days- Outcome group
- Immune response · Immune and inflammation
Source sentences
These cells remained intact and produced physiologic amounts of the thymic hormone thymosin alpha-1 after encapsulation in a permselective polymer membrane and in vitro culture for 5 days.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
A pure culture of thymic epithelial cells, identified as such by transmission electron microscopy and keratin staining, was obtained by low temperature organ culture of fetal mouse thymus.
This result measures the body's own Thymosin alpha-1. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.