Stimulation of anti-influenza serum antibody formation in the rat using bovine thymus polypeptide extract

Endocrinologie
|January 1, 1977
PubMed

The authors show that a thymus polypeptide extract, TP1, prepared by them has the effedt of stimulating the formation of anti-influenza serum antibodies and do not show antigenic properties. The extract causes increase of serum lymphocytes. Electrophoretic analysis in polyacrylamide gel reveals a number of 11 fraction, while paper chromatography for amino acids, a number of 12 spots.

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