Effects of HgCl2 on the expression of autoimmune responses and disease in diabetes-prone (DP) BB rats

Autoimmunity

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 173-187

  Kosuda, Linda L ^a   Greiner, Dale L ^a,b   Bigazzi, Pierluigi E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoantibodies to laminin; Autoantibodies to thyroglobulin; Diabetes mellitus; IgG isotypes; IgG1; IgG2a; IgG2b; IgG2c; Th1 lymphocytes; Th2 lymphocytes; Thyroiditis; Xenobiotics

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G1; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2A; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G2B; LAMININ; MERCURY CHLORIDE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; ANTI THYROGLOBULIN; ANTI-THYROGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; THYROGLOBULIN; XENOBIOTIC AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NONHUMAN; RAT; THYROIDITIS; ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; BIOBREEDING RAT; BLOOD; CHEMICALLY INDUCED DISORDER; HELPER CELL; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY; LEWIS RAT; PANCREAS; PATHOLOGY; THYROID GLAND;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; DIABETES MELLITUS, TYPE 1; FEMALE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; KIDNEY; LAMININ; MERCURIC CHLORIDE; PANCREAS; RATS; RATS, INBRED BB; RATS, INBRED LEW; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; XENOBIOTICS;

EID: 0031283074     PISSN: 08916934     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/08916939708994739     Document Type: Article

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