Thymus and stress in the clinical history and experiment

Abstract

This article is dedicated to the problem of interaction between the nervous, the endocrine and immune systems based on the literature review and the author's data. Meanwhile, thymus is considered to be not only from the viewpoint of performance of the immune system, but also as the endocrine glandular making neuroimmunoendocrine interactions possible. Tactivine being a polypeptide thymus medicine impacts not only on the immune system but also displays detoxicating, mnemotropic and stress-protecting effects.