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Thymulin

Immune & thymic

A zinc-dependent thymic hormone studied in immune research.

Zinc-ThymulinSerum thymic factorFTS

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Not enough listings with 30 days of checks to summarise a change — 1 of 1 qualify so far.

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Known aliases

Understand this compound

What is Thymulin?

Preclinical / animal onlya.k.a. FTS (Facteur Thymique Sérique)

A zinc-dependent molecule from the thymus that helps young immune cells mature. Studied in immune aging — and it literally stops working without zinc.

Immune & thymic
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Good to know: Its zinc dependence means measured or administered activity is highly sensitive to zinc status, and no controlled human supplementation trials establish a clinical benefit.

How does Thymulin work?

The science

A zinc-dependent nonapeptide (FTS bound to zinc) produced by thymic epithelial cells that promotes T-cell differentiation and balances Th1/Th2 immune responses; it loses activity without bound zinc.

Mechanism of action from published research — how the molecule behaves, not a claim about any product or any human-use effect.

What is Thymulin researched for?

Studied for immunosenescence and age-related decline in T-cell function.

  • Immune & thymicStudied in immune-modulation and thymic-function research.
How far has the research gone?

Preclinical / animal research — well-characterized mechanistically, but human data are largely observational (correlating declining thymulin levels with age), not interventional.

Where the science stands — an approved drug is not the same as the research-grade material a vendor sells, which is unregulated regardless.

What should I check before buying?
  • Independent purity. Look for a third-party COA (Janoshik or MZ) showing a measured purity — not just a number the vendor typed.
  • Batch match. The strongest evidence is a certificate for the exact batch you’ll receive, attributed to this vendor — check the cross-verification on the listing.
  • Vendor reputation. See how the vendor is talked about in the community before trusting a new name.

Research context only — VialGrade never gives dosing, medical, or human-use guidance.

Current market

The Thymulin market

Every Thymulin listing we track — 1 in all. The standout picks first where the evidence supports them, then the full table, ranked by what a milligram really costs wherever the vendor published a strength we can read.

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Independent testing

Thymulin — independent lab tests

Real, publicly verifiable third-party tests. Purity is read from the certificate itself. A test reflects one lab’s result for one submitted batch — not a guarantee that every vial matches.

How does this data get here?

Every record below is a real certificate of analysis, gathered two ways: from the public verification feeds that independent labs (like Janoshik) publish, and from the certificates vendors post on their own product pages. We open each certificate document and read the measured purity, content, batch, and date directly off it — a scraper can’t read a number printed inside an image, so this is done by machine vision, then recorded here with a link back to the original.

Nothing here is typed in by a vendor or invented by us. Where a certificate is missing, we say so rather than filling the gap.

We re-check the lab feed, too. A “still listed” tag means the certificate is currently public in Janoshik’s database — we re-verify against the live feed and stamp the date. If a cert is later pulled, the tag flips. It’s a freshness check on the same source, not a second independent opinion.

What a certificate does & doesn’t prove

Three different questions. Purity (“how clean?”), identity (“is it the right molecule?”, a mass-spec test), and content (“did I get the labeled mg?”) are separate. A vial can be 99% pure and still be the wrong peptide, or the right peptide underdosed. We flag the measured dose against the label above; underdosing is the most common real fraud.

Who submitted the sample matters. Most of these are vendor-submitted — the seller chose which vial to send, so one good certificate doesn’t prove every batch is the same. The gold standard is a blind test, where a buyer sends a vial they bought as a normal customer. Same label doesn’t prove same product; same batch number doesn’t prove same batch.

CertificateManufacturerBatchPurityContent / doseLab
PeptideGurus—See report—Janoshik Analytical Verify

What the research says

Scientific evidence & regulatory status

What the published literature actually shows about Thymulin — separate from any vendor’s marketing. Each finding links to its paper. This is education, not medical or dosing advice.

Regulatory status

No FDA-approved drug

Not FDA-approved; FDA lists thymulin acetate in category 3 of the section 503A compounding nominations — nominated without adequate supporting information — and no registered clinical trials of it appear on ClinicalTrials.gov.

US legal status

Research-use-only — not FDA-approved

Sold “for research use only,” this compound is not FDA-approved for human use and has not been evaluated for safety, purity, or sterility in people. It is generally not a scheduled controlled substance, so buying it as a research chemical is typically not itself a drug crime — but marketing or using it as a drug is not lawful, and it is not a dietary supplement.

Read the full US law →

General information, not legal or medical advice. VialGrade sells nothing and encourages no human use.

Research notes aren’t product proof

Research summaries describe published literature and market data only. They do not establish the identity, quality, safety, or legal status of any listed physical product.