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thymic

Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for thymic.

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The vast majority of vertebrates experience thymic involution (or atrophy) in which thymic epithelial tissue is replaced with adipose tissue, resulting in decreasing T cell export from the thymus.

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Quick take

Of or relating to the thymus gland

Meaning at a glance

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adjective

Of or relating to the thymus gland

adjective

(organic chemistry) Derived from thymol

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for thymic.

adjective

Of or relating to the thymus gland

adjective

(organic chemistry) Derived from thymol

Example sentences

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The vast majority of vertebrates experience thymic involution (or atrophy) in which thymic epithelial tissue is replaced with adipose tissue, resulting in decreasing T cell export from the thymus.

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A thymic compensation via depressive episodes is inevitable, since the human brain will not tolerate abuse indefinitely.

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It would certainly be possible to push forward a startup today based on thymic regeneration or hematopoietic stem cell transplantation; the science is more or less ready for it.

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It's pretty well known bad vaccine efficiency and side effects will correlate very strongly with HLA, and with thymic involution.

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The rate of thymic T cell production is estimated to decline exponentially over time with a half-life of ∼15.7 years.

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The first major loss of active thymic tissue occurs at the end of childhood, however, in a process known as involution.

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By injecting them the thymic hormone thymalin, their thymus grow back and rejuvenate.

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With the recent successes of T cell-based immunotherapies, it is timely to assess how thymic involution may affect cancer and infectious disease incidence.

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Nevertheless, it is worth noting that exponential rates close to the declining curve for thymic T cell production can be seen to emerge from the incidence data, indicating the relevance of the thymic involution timescale.

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For instance, age-associated thymic involution seems to occur in all species that possess a thymus, indicating that this process is evolutionary ancient and conserved.

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There's a huge variability in the age of thymic involution.

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The renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system, vasopressive intenstinal peptide-vasopressin regulatory axis, pinneal-thymic-bone marrow system, hypothalamic-pituitary system, and more are all significantly influenced by boswellia derivatives.

Quote examples

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This HLA "version" trades better response to virus that mutate quickly for more chances of autoimmunity as thymic selection is less stringent (because HLA-B57 presents less selfpeptides in the thymus).

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Second, the T cell undergoes "Negative Selection" by interacting with thymic dendritic cell whereby T cells with high affinity interaction are eliminated through apoptosis (to avoid autoimmunity), and those with intermediate affinity survive.

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>" Given that this study focuses on declining naive T cell production and thymic tissue loss, it is interesting to look at another recent study that suggests these losses are the dominant cause of increased cancer rates with age.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use thymic in a sentence?

The vast majority of vertebrates experience thymic involution (or atrophy) in which thymic epithelial tissue is replaced with adipose tissue, resulting in decreasing T cell export from the thymus.

What does thymic mean?

Of or relating to the thymus gland

What part of speech is thymic?

thymic is commonly used as adjective.