[Effect of neonatal thymectomy on the content of magnesium in the plasma and in various tissues of the rat].
White rats were thymectomized neonatally. After 60 days, no alteration was noted in the plasma or testis magnesium level. On the other hand, a marked decrease was observed in the magnesium content of muscle (-23%) and of bone (-19%). The injection of thymosin reversed these changes. These findings suggest that a correlation between the thymus and the muscle is exerted by a protein factor (thymosin), and that the thymus may act on sex glands through an indirect pathway.
D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn / Q000254:growth & development*; D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000032:analysis; D006801:Humans; D008274:Magnesium / Q000032:analysis / Q000097:blood / Q000378:metabolism*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009132:Muscles / Q000032:analysis; D051381:Rats; D013737:Testis / Q000032:analysis / Q000502:physiology; D013934:Thymectomy; D013947:Thymosin / Q000494:pharmacology; D013950:Thymus Gland / Q000378:metabolism
D013947:Thymosin; D008274:Magnesium