In the irradiated CFU-S model, thymogen reduced damage from ionizing radiation by half compared with control.
In plain wordsIn animals, thymogen reduced radiation damage to blood-forming colony units by half compared with control.
- Peptide
- Thymogen (oglufanide)
- Outcome
- DecreaseRadiation damage to CFU-S
- Study
n: not reported in source
irradiated hemopoietic CFU-S- Comparator
- Control
- Outcome group
- Immune response · Immune and inflammation
- Studied dose
- Dose not stated
Source sentences
Both thymogen and thymohexin were demonstrated to be able to reduce the damaging effect of ionizing radiation (1 Gy) on CFU-S by half.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
The radiotherapeutic effect of thymogen (Glu-Trp) and thymohexin (Arg-Lys-Asp-Val-Tyr-Arg) synthetic peptide immunomodulators was investigated.