In normal post-mortem human spinal cord, MALDI imaging located thymosin beta‑4 mainly in the gray matter.
In plain wordsIn normal human spinal cord samples, the body's own thymosin beta‑4 was found mainly in the gray matter.
- Peptide
- Thymosin beta-4 (human)
- Outcome
- Not applicableSpinal cord distribution of thymosin beta 4
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Outcome group
- Endogenous peptide levels · Nervous system and cognition
Source sentences
thymosin beta 4, ubiquitin, histone proteins, acyl-CoA-binding protein, and macrophage inhibitory factor were predominantly localized to the gray matter.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
In this study, we report for the first time the MALDI imaging-based spatial protein profiling and relative quantification of post-mortem human spinal cord samples obtained from ALS patients and controls.
This result measures the body's own Thymosin beta-4 (human). Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.