[The influence of pulsed infrared laser radiation on the hormone production in the thymus (an experimental study)].

Voprosy kurortologii, fizioterapii, i lechebnoi fizicheskoi kultury2011PMID: 21988030

Plain Language Summary

Pulsed infrared laser irradiation of the thymus region stimulated the production of thymosin alpha-1 in healthy animals and normalized its levels in stressed ones. Direct laser exposure of cultured human thymus cells confirmed this effect, suggesting low-energy laser therapy could be used to boost natural thymosin alpha-1 production.

Abstract

Local irradiation with pulsed (1500 Hz) low-energy infrared laser light of the thymus and thyroid gland region caused well-apparent stimulation of alpha-1-thymosin production in the healthy animals and normalized its level in the stressed ones. Similar stimulation of alpha-1-timosine biosynthesis was observed in an experiment with direct laser irradiation of the cultured HTSC epitheliocytes from the human thymus.

Authors

Pershin, S B; Minenkov, A A; Sidorov, V D; Derevnina, N A; Zapevalov, M V