Characterization of thyroid fibrosis in a murine model of granulomatous experimental autoimmune thyroiditis

Journal of Leukocyte Biology

Volumn 68, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 828-835

  Chen, K ^a   Wei, Y ^a   Sharp, G C ^a   Braley Mullen, H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoimmune disease; Myofibroblasts; TGF 1

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; MESSENGER RNA; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROXINE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FIBROSIS; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; IN VITRO STUDY; KINETICS; MOUSE; MYOFIBROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLEEN CELL; SUBACUTE THYROIDITIS; THYROID FOLLICLE; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ACTINS; ADOPTIVE TRANSFER; ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CELLS, CULTURED; COLLAGEN; FIBROBLASTS; FIBROSIS; GRANULOMA; IMMUNIZATION; INTERLEUKIN-12; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, INBRED DBA; MODELS, ANIMAL; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-2; RNA, MESSENGER; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; THYROXINE; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA; TRANSFORMING GROWTH FACTOR BETA1;

EID: 0033664322     PISSN: 07415400     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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