"Thymopoietins" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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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.
| Descriptor ID |
D013946
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D06.472.910.800
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