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Contemporary Views on the Nature and Clinical Application of Thymus Preparations.
Russ J Immunol
December 1997
Research Institute for Physical and Chemical Medicine, Moscow, Russia.
The contemporary views on the clinical application and efficiency of the most well-known peptide preparations isolated from thymus are presented in this review. Among these preparations are thymosins, thymulin, thymopoetin, thymostimulin, thymopentin, thymalin, tactivin, and others. The results of clinical trials, dosages and indications of thymus peptide preparations, their advantages and disadvantages and perspectives of their therapeutical use are discussed.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA study is presented of the cellular-humoral immunity in patients with typical meningococcemia complicated by infectious-toxic shock. Obtained data evidence significant changes of the cellular-humoral immunity in meningococcemias, especially those accompanied by infectious-toxic shock along with traditional methods the authors propose immunoregulatory and pathogenetic treatment: human immunoglobulin, aminocaproic acid, sodium, ethamsilate or dicinon, thymalin or T-activin, dopamin, rifampycin. The dosage of these drugs should be individual.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[A comparative evaluation of the efficacy of different therapeutic methods in sarcoidosis of the skin].
Vestn Dermatol Venerol
September 1990
Twenty-eight patients with skin sarcoidosis were treated with thymalin, thymogen, levamisole, dimocifon, with due consideration for their immune status. Immunostimulating therapy has failed. Plaquenil, phthivazide and duplex therapy did not result in noticeable improvement either.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe monitoring of the immune system in pulmonary tuberculosis patients and their peripheric blood lymphocyte reaction to its T-system modulators was undertaken by cellular electrophoresis. It was shown that when the lymphocyte subpopulation ratio tends to be normalized in vitro by inoculation with thymalin and T-activin, the given situation can be viewed as an indication to prescribe immunocorrection drugs to these patients. The lymphocyte subpopulation ratio check in the pulmonary tuberculosis subjects by means of the proposed method before and after the thymalin and T-activin treatment made it possible to reveal a significant normalization of the immunologic indices and to achieve better clinical condition of the patients.
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