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: -The thymus produces and secretes thymosin, a hormone necessary for T cell development and production. The thymus is special in that, unlike most organs, it is at its largest in children. Once you reach puberty, the thymus starts to slowly shrink and become replaced by fat.

Detailed explanation-3: -The thymus also produces a hormone called thymosin that helps make and develop T cells.

Detailed explanation-4: -Thymosin is a 5-Da polypeptide hormone secreted by the thymus gland.

Detailed explanation-5: -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.