"Thymosin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Thymosin. A family of heat-stable, polypeptide hormones secreted by the thymus gland. Their biological activities include lymphocytopoiesis, restoration of immunological competence and enhancement of expression of T-cell characteristics and function. They have therapeutic potential in patients having primary or secondary immunodeficiency diseases, cancer or diseases related to aging.
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D013947
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D06.472.910.850 D12.644.548.869 D12.776.922
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| 2005 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2006 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2007 | 3 | 0 | 3 |
| 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Thymosin" by people in Profiles.
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Suppression of thymosin ?10 increases cell migration and metastasis of cholangiocarcinoma. BMC Cancer. 2013 Sep 23; 13:430.
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Roles and mechanisms of ?-thymosins in cell migration and cancer metastasis: an update. Cancer Invest. 2013 Feb; 31(2):103-10.
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Advances in thymosin beta10 research: differential expression, molecular mechanisms, and clinical implications in cancer and other conditions. Cancer Invest. 2009 Dec; 27(10):1016-22.
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Thymosin beta-10 is aberrantly expressed in pancreatic cancer and induces JNK activation. Cancer Invest. 2009 Mar; 27(3):251-6.
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Thymosin Beta 4 is overexpressed in human pancreatic cancer cells and stimulates proinflammatory cytokine secretion and JNK activation. Cancer Biol Ther. 2008 Mar; 7(3):419-23.
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Thymosin-alpha1 modulates dendritic cell differentiation and functional maturation from human peripheral blood CD14+ monocytes. Immunol Lett. 2007 Jun 15; 110(2):110-20.
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Roles of thymosins in cancers and other organ systems. World J Surg. 2005 Mar; 29(3):264-70.
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Overexpression of the thymosin beta-10 gene in human ovarian cancer cells disrupts F-actin stress fiber and leads to apoptosis. Oncogene. 2001 Oct 11; 20(46):6700-6.
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Cytokine-mediated apoptosis and inhibition of virus production and anchorage independent growth of viral transfected hepatoblastoma cells. Cytokine. 1998 Aug; 10(8):586-95.