ANATOMY

Detailed explanation-1: -Your thymus produces and releases several hormones including: Thymopoietin: fuels the production of T-cells and tells the pituitary gland to release hormones. Thymosin and thymulin: help make specialized types of T-cells. Thymic humoral factor: keeps your immune system working properly.

Detailed explanation-2: -Three major thymus hormones, thymosin, thymopoietin, and thymulin, are thought to reside in the cytoplasm of the thymus epithelial cell.

Detailed explanation-3: -Thymosin is the hormone of the thymus, and it stimulates the development of disease-fighting T cells.

Detailed explanation-4: -The thymus is an organ that is critically important to the immune system which serves as the body’s defense mechanism providing surveillance and protection against diverse pathogens, tumors, antigens and mediators of tissue damage.

Detailed explanation-5: -The thymus develops from the third pharyngeal pouch, which gives rise to endodermal-derived thymic cortical epithelium, and the third pharyngeal cleft, which is thought to give rise to ectodermal-derived medullary thymic epithelium.