Replacement of a diseased organ with an autologously derived tissue is an ideal therapy for some medical problems. However, it is difficult to recreate many adult human tissues in vitro due to the functionally necessary architecture of most organs and the lack of understanding of methods to direct the development of the organ of interest. The parathyroid gland is ideal for in vitro organ develo...

Myasthenia Gravis (MG) is an autoimmune disease that affects neuromuscular junctions and characterized by muscle weakness as a result of autoantibodies against certain proteins. As heterogeneous disorder, MG presents with different types, including neonatal, ocular generalized in both juveniles adults. Different types antibodies serve role how presents. The main biological characteristic the pr...

A poly(A) polymerase has been purified from the soluble protein fraction of calf thymus gland. The activity is cytoplasmic and nonparticulate. Mn-2+ATP is the preferred substrate. On the basis of disc gel electrophoresis in sodium dodecyl sulfate-acrylamide gels, gel filtration, and sedimentation velocity in sucrose gradients, the enzyme has a molecular weight of 62,000 and appears to consist o...

OBJECTIVES AND DESIGN Researchers of the St. Petersburg Institute of Bioregulation and Gerontology of the North-Western Branch of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences and the Institute of Gerontology of the Ukrainian Academy of Medical Sciences (Kiev) clinically assessed the geroprotective effects of thymic (Thymalin) and pineal (Epithalamin) peptide bioregulators in 266 elderly and older pe...

1. Double suprarenalectomy in growing rats is an additional stimulus for thymic growth and brings about marked prepubertal hyperplasia of this gland. 2. Our results on young rats suggest that the suprarenal cortex may be a factor in the excessive thymic hyperplasias seen in infants and children.

OBJECTIVE A few thymoma patients without myasthenia gravis (MG) have been observed to develop MG after total removal of the thymoma (postoperative MG). However, the cause of this is not yet known because of the rarity of postoperative MG patients. This study evaluated the clinical characteristics of the 8 postoperative MG patients. METHODS We compiled 1089 thymoma patients treated between 199...

Address for Correspondence: V.N.Susimitha sri, IInd year MBBS, Department of Anatomy, Kanyakumari Government Medical College, Asaripallam, Nagercoil-629201, India. E-mail: [email protected] Access this Article online Quick Response code Web site: *1 IInd year MBBS, 2 Associate professor. Deapartment of Anatomy, Kanyakumari Government Medical College, Asaripallam, Nagercoil. India. Introduc...

1. The incorporation of (14)C-labelled amino acids into acid-extractable proteins from rat-liver and -thymus nuclei confirmed the existence of a protein component with a higher uptake than that into the major histone components. 2. This rapidly labelled component appeared to contain the thiol groups detectable in the acid extracts. 3. Histone f1 contained 1mol. of serine phosphate/mol. of mol.w...

Thymus is a primary lymphoid organ in fish. This gland is situated at the upper most part of the middorsolateral region of the opercular cavity, close to the base of 3 rd and 4 th gill arches. Aplocheilus panchax (Weight-2.5gm. Length-7.5cm.) a fresh water teleost belonging to the Order – Cyprinidontiformes, family – Aplocheilidae is examined under light and transmission electron microscopes (L...