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Thymus
From MEpedia, a crowd-sourced encyclopedia of ME and CFS science and history
The thymus is a specialized primary lymphoid organ of the immune system. Within the thymus, T cells mature. T cells are critical to the adaptive immune system, where the body adapts specifically to foreign invaders.
Thymosin
Thymosin is the hormone of the thymus, and it stimulates the development of disease-fighting T cells.
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