Effect of thymus polypeptide fractions on the development of rat thymus and spleen in organ culture |
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Authors: | Chalisova N I Khavinson V Kh Penniiaĭnen V A Grigor'ev E I |
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Affiliation: | Institute of Physiology, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg. |
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Abstract: | Peptides of the thymus--vilon, thymogen and thymalin, alone or in combination with concanavalin A, were used to investigate their effect on organotypic culture of thymus and spleen explants from 1- and 21-day old rats. Vilon, thymogen and thymalin in concentrations of 2 and 10 ng/ml and 5 ng/ml, resp., exerted stimulating effects in thymus and spleen tissue cultures from 21-day old rats as compared to the control explants. Vilon and thymogen showed inhibiting effect in the thymus tissue cultures from 1-day old rats as compared to the control explants. However, the peptides together with concanavalin A in concentration of 10 mkg/ml resulted in decreasing the action of concanavalin A alone. The polypeptide fractions of thymus and their synthetic analogs play different roles in the regulation of thymus and spleen development in rats of different age. |
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