In 135 untreated subjects with AIDS, AIDS-related complex or no symptoms, more than half of the patients had abnormal serum thymosin alpha‑1.
In plain wordsIn people with AIDS-related disease, more than half had abnormal levels of the body's own thymosin alpha‑1 in blood.
- Peptide
- Thymosin alpha-1
- Outcome
- Direction not reportedSerum thymosin alpha 1 in AIDS-related disease
- Study
n = 135
- Outcome group
- Immune response · Immune and inflammation
Source sentences
More than half of all patients had abnormal percentages of lymphocytes, percentages of T3+ cells, percentage and absolute number of T4+ cells, percentage of T8+ cells, T4/T8 ratio, monocyte adherence, and serum thymosin alpha 1.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Immunologic and conventional laboratory studies were done in 135 previously untreated subjects including 28 (20.7%) symptom-free homosexuals and 74 (54.8%) with ARC and 33 (24.5%) with AIDS.
This result measures the body's own Thymosin alpha-1. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.