Dr. Abud Bakri
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But studied these two dramatically, thymusin alpha-1 and thymusin beta-4.
The French came up with the actual main thymus hormone, which is thymulin, not thymolin.
Thymolin is the Russian polypeptide mix.
Thymulin is a 9-amino acid compound.
that is the marker of thymus function.
It also has very interesting neurological effects, which I think you'll find interesting because it modulates...
The what we're calling the thymus pituitary adrenal axis, the thymus pituitary gonadal axis.
Thymulin is this peptide that's secreted by thymus, dramatically decreases with age, zinc dependent.
So biology likes to use metals with different amino acid structures, hemoglobin with iron, GHK copper with copper.
Thymulin is zinc dependent.
So it's a nine amino acid peptide with zinc inside of it.
to do its effects.
That will develop NK cells and T cells, stimulate the immune response.
But also in the animal models, not replicated in humans yet, when they take out the pituitary and then inject, you know, ACTH or ACG, the amount of thymulin sensitizes the end organ to production of the targeted hormone.
For example, if you were to give ACG alone to the animal... HCG.
Yeah, ACG.
Synthetic luteinizing hormone.
Yes, yes, yes.
Essentially.
It's called the ACGLH receptor.