Recombinant thymosin

{
  "id": "MLC-T-ONC-016459",
  "term": "Recombinant thymosin",
  "field": "Oncology and biomedicine",
  "definition": "A recombinant form of a polypeptide chemically identical to or similar to the hormone secreted by the thymus gland. Thymosin is generally known to have functions in the preprocessing of T cells and the development of B cells to plasma cells to produce antibodies. In particular, the predominant form of thymosin, beta 4 thymosin, is the principal actin-sequestering protein that plays an important role in functions that involve actin molecules, such as maintenance of cell shape, cytoplasmic organization, cell movement, and cell division.",
  "synonyms": [
    "thymosin"
  ],
  "references": [
    "National Cancer Institute Thesaurus"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/oncology/recombinant-thymosin/"
}