In hypophysectomized birds, the injected peptides Lys-Glu-Asp-Gly and Ala-Glu-Asp-Gly prevented atrophic changes of the thyroid gland.
In plain wordsIn birds with the pituitary gland removed, the two injected peptides prevented shrinking of the thyroid gland.
- Peptide
- Epitalon
- Outcome
- DecreaseAtrophic changes of the thyroid gland
- Study
chickenn: not reported in source
Hypophysectomized chicken and one-year-old birds- Outcome group
- Thyroid function · Endocrine and hormones
Source sentences
Peptides of the anterior (Lys-Glu-Asp-Gly) and posterior (Ala-Glu-Asp-Gly) thyroid lobes injected to hypophysectomized birds prevent atrophic changes of the thyroid gland, normalize immune and hemostatic parameters.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Neonatal hypophysectomy in chicken produces enlarged follicles of the thyroid gland, accumulation of colloids, impressed follicular epithelium, increased nucleus-cytoplasm ratio in thyrocytes, atrophied inter-follicular epithelium, depressed immunity, development of hypercoagulation and depressed fibrinolysis.
In this study, Epitalon was a lab tool or a carrier, part of a mix, or the subject of a lab method. This result is not evidence about taking Epitalon.