in vitro zinc addition to diabetic plasma samples also induces zinc saturation of inactive thymic hormone molecules : the total thymic hormone measured in these experimental conditions shows values in diabetic patients comparable with those observed in healthy age-matched individuals , suggesting that low thymulin levels recorded in diabetic conditions are due not to a thymic failure in synthesizing and secreting thymic hormone but to a peripheral defect in zinc saturation of the hormone molecules .
C0040114
thymic hormone
C0019932
hormone