Retro-orbital autoimmunity

Bailliere's Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 499-520

  Heufelder, A E ^a  

^a LUDWIG MAXIMILIANS UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adhesion molecules; Autoimmune disease; Cytokines; Graves' disease; Graves' ophthalmopathy; Orbital fibroblasts; T cells; Thyroid associated ophthalmopathy; Thyrotropin receptor

Indexed keywords

CYTOKINE;

AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CELL INTERACTION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EFFECTOR CELL; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EYE DISEASE; GRAVES DISEASE; HEREDITY; HLA SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; TARGET CELL;

EID: 0031417573     PISSN: 0950351X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0950-351X(97)80723-9     Document Type: Article

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