Discrete Characteristics of Antibodies Raised Against Thyrotropin Receptor-Related Peptides Whose Sequences Are Not Conserved in the Luteinizing Hormone/Chorionic Gonadotropin Receptor

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 81, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1747-1752

  Murakami, Masami ^a   Miyashita, Kazuya ^a   Mizuma, Haruo ^a   Yamada, Masanobu ^a   Iriuchijima, Tokuji ^a   Takeuchi, Toshiyuki ^b   Mori, Masatomo ^a  

^a GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b GUNMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CRICETINAE; CRICETULUS GRISEUS; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS;

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; EPITOPE; LUTEINIZING HORMONE RECEPTOR; THYROID STIMULATING IMMUNOGLOBULIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIBODY TITER; ARTICLE; CHO CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; GRAVES DISEASE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; RABBIT;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODIES, BLOCKING; CHO CELLS; CONSERVED SEQUENCE; CRICETINAE; EPITOPES; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, THYROID-STIMULATING; IMMUNOSORBENT TECHNIQUES; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RECEPTORS, LH; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; RECOMBINANT PROTEINS;

EID: 0029880223     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jcem.81.5.8626828     Document Type: Article

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