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... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Thymus Hormones > Thymopoietins

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Thymopoietins  

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Entry terms

  • Thymin
  • Thymins
  • Thymopoietin

Note

  • do not confuse entry term THYMINS with THYMINE

Scope note

  • Two closely related polypeptides (molecular weight 7,000) isolated from the thymus gland. These hormones induce the differentiation of prothymocytes to thymocytes within the thymus. They also cause a delayed impairment of neuromuscular transmission in vivo and are therefore believed to be the agent responsible for myasthenia gravis.

History note

  • 91(77); was see under THYMUS HORMONES 1977-90

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