Cell-mediated immunity and postpartum thyroid dysfunction: A possibility for the prediction of disease?

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 83, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1959-1966

  Kuijpens, Johannes L ^a   De Haan Meulman, Meeny ^b   Vader, Huib L ^c   Pop, Victor J ^d   Wiersinga, Wilmar M ^e   Drexhage, Hemmo A ^b  

^a Munic Hlth Serv Southeast Brabant   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c ST JOSEPH HOSPITAL   (Netherlands)

^d TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MONOCYTE; NATURAL KILLER CELL; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUERPERIUM; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYROID DISEASE;

AUTOANTIBODIES; DENDRITIC CELLS; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; KILLER CELLS, NATURAL; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MONOCYTES; PREGNANCY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; PUERPERAL DISORDERS; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYROID DISEASES; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 0031790454     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.83.6.1959     Document Type: Article

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