Cytolytic T cells with Th1-like cytokine profile predominate in retroorbital lymphocytic infiltrates of graves’ ophthalmopathy

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 77, Issue 5, 1993, Pages 1120-1124

  De Carli, Marco ^a   D’elios, Mario M ^a   Mariotti, Stefano ^b   Marcocci, Claudio ^b   Pinchera, Aldo ^b   Ricci, Mario ^a   Romagnani, Sergio ^a   Del Prete, Gianfranco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CELL CLONING; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; FEMALE; FIBROGENESIS; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN SECRETION;

ADULT; ANTIGENS, CD4; ANTIGENS, CD8; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; GRAVES' DISEASE; HUMAN; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; ORBIT; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; T-LYMPHOCYTES; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER;

EID: 0027358802     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 19457197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.77.5.8077301     Document Type: Article

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