Tumour necrosis factor-α is a fundamental cytokine in autoimmune thyroid disease induced by thyroglobulin and lipopolysaccharide in interleukin-12 p40 deficient C57BL/6 mice

Immunology

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 50-54

  Zaccone, Paola ^a   Fehérvári, Zoltán ^a   Cooke, Anne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADJUVANT; CYTOKINE; FREUND ADJUVANT; INTERLEUKIN 12; INTERLEUKIN 18; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PROTEIN P40; THYROGLOBULIN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; IMMUNIZATION; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERITONEAL EXUDATE CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; PROTEIN SECRETION; STIMULATION;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; ANIMALS; ASCITIC FLUID; FEMALE; FREUND'S ADJUVANT; INTERLEUKIN-12; INTERLEUKIN-12 SUBUNIT P40; INTERLEUKIN-18; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PROTEIN SUBUNITS; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 0037244631     PISSN: 00192805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2003.01547.x     Document Type: Article

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