ArticleChermeneva LM, Arion VIa, Gladysheva TV, Petrov RV, Khaitov RM.
Biull Eksp Biol Med. 1978 May;85(5):602-5.
Lymph node cells of normal CBA mice, syngeneic radiation chimerae CBA leads to CBA and B-mice after incubation with thymosin (fraction 5) were transplanted to sublethally irradiated recipients (CBA X C57BL) F1; the number of endogenic colonies in the recipient's spleen was then recorded. Thymosin was shown to increase the killer activity of the lymph node cells of normal mice CBA, syngeneic chimerae CBA leads to CBA, but not of B-mice. As suggested, TU-cells' subpopulation served as target cells for thymosin.