Blocking-type anti-TSH receptor antibodies and relation to responsiveness to antithyroid drug therapy and remission in Graves' disease

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 403-408

  Tada, Hisato ^a   Mizuta, Ikuko ^a   Takano, Toru ^a   Tatsumi, Ke Ita ^a   Izumi, Yukiko ^a   Hidaka, Yoh ^a   Amino, Nobuyuki ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTITHYROID AGENT; THIAMAZOLE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID STIMULATING IMMUNOGLOBULIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY BLOOD LEVEL; ANTIBODY DETECTION; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DRUG EFFICACY; FEMALE; GOITER; GRAVES DISEASE; HEMAGGLUTINATION; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIORECEPTOR ASSAY; REMISSION; THYROTOXICOSIS; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTITHYROID AGENTS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, THYROID-STIMULATING; MALE; METHIMAZOLE; MICROSOMES; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION; REMISSION INDUCTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROXINE;

EID: 0037380196     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01726.x     Document Type: Article

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