Thymus hormones as prospective anti-inflammatory agents

Expert Opinion on Therapeutic Targets

Volumn 14, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 775-786

  Lunin, Sergey M ^a   Novoselova, Elena G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF CELL BIOPHYSICS   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

Inflammation; Inflammatory diseases; Inflammatory response; Sepsis; Thymic hormones; Thymopentin; Thymopoietin; Thymosin; Thymulin

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GAMMA INTERFERON; GONADORELIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INTERLEUKIN 1; INTERLEUKIN 10; INTERLEUKIN 1ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 2; INTERLEUKIN 4; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROTHYMOSIN ALPHA; THYMOPENTIN; THYMOPOIETIN; THYMOSIN ALPHA; THYMOSIN ALPHA1; THYMULIN; THYMUS HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; DRUG HALF LIFE; GONADORELIN RELEASE; HUMAN; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPERALGESIA; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; INTERFERON PRODUCTION; LEISHMANIASIS; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RELEASE; NONHUMAN; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; REVIEW; SEPSIS; THYROID GLAND; UNSPECIFIED SIDE EFFECT;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS, NON-STEROIDAL; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; HORMONES; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; MICE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; THYMIC FACTOR, CIRCULATING; THYMOPOIETINS; THYMOSIN; THYMUS HORMONES;

EID: 77954811964     PISSN: 14728222     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1517/14728222.2010.499127     Document Type: Review

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