Demonstration of thyroid stimulating activity within H chain fragments of TSAb-IgG by protease digestion and reduction

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 183-188

  Kouki, Tsuyoshi ^a   Inui, Takehiro ^a   Hachiya, Takashi ^a   Okabe, Hidetoshi ^a   Ochi, Yukio ^a   Kajita, Yoshihiro ^b  

^a SHIGA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

^b NANTAN GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEINASE; THYROID STIMULATING IMMUNOGLOBULIN; THYROTROPIN;

AFFINITY CHROMATOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THYROID CELL; THYROID FUNCTION;

EID: 0030951383     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.1997.1110923.x     Document Type: Article

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