Prevalence and significance of antibodies reactive with eye muscle membrane antigens in sera from patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy and other thyroid and nonthyroid diseases

Thyroid

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 167-174

  Wu, Yi Jie ^a   Clarke, Susan E M ^b   Shepherd, Philip ^c  

^a SHANGHAI FIRST PEOPLE S HOSPITAL   (China)

^b GUY S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MUSCLE ANTIGEN; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN ANTIBODY REACTION; ANTIGEN DETECTION; ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOPATHOGENESIS; MALE; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SERODIAGNOSIS;

EID: 0031913778     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.1998.8.167     Document Type: Article

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