Possible involvement of Fas-mediated apoptosis in eye muscle tissue from patients with thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy

Thyroid

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 311-318

  Koga, Mari ^a   Hiromatsu, Yuji ^a   Jimi, Atsuo ^a   Inoue, Yoichi ^b   Nonaka, Kyohei ^a  

^a KURUME UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b Olympia Medical Clinic   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA FRAGMENT; FAS ANTIGEN; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; PROTEIN BCL 2;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CELL INFILTRATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; EXTRAOCULAR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0031981394     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.1998.8.311     Document Type: Article

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