Young homosexual men with the prodrome of the immune-deficiency syndrome had higher serum thymosin alpha‑1 than 21 normal heterosexual individuals.
In plain wordsYoung men with the prodrome had higher levels of the body's own thymosin alpha‑1 than healthy heterosexual people did.
- Peptide
- Thymosin alpha-1
- Outcome
- IncreaseSerum thymosin alpha 1 level
- Study
n = 33
- Comparator
- 21 normal heterosexual individuals
- Outcome group
- Immune response · Immune and inflammation
Measurements
- serum thymosin alpha 1
- 1473 pg/ml
- homosexual men
- serum thymosin alpha 1
- 524 pg/ml
- normal heterosexual individuals
Source sentences
an elevated serum thymosin alpha 1 level (1473 versus 524 pg/ml, p less than or equal to 0.001
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
To help clarify the nature and pathogenesis of the syndrome of severely opportunistic infection associated with immune deficiency in young homosexual males, we investigated the immunological characteristics of a group of 33 young homosexual men.
This result measures the body's own Thymosin alpha-1. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.