A functional site on the human TSH receptor: A potential therapeutic target in Graves' disease

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 437-441

  Johnstone, Alan P ^a   Cridland, Jeremy C ^b   Da Costa, Clive R ^a   Nussey, Stephen S ^a   Shepherd, Philip S ^b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABCIXIMAB; CYCLIC AMP; EPITOPE; LONG ACTING THYROID STIMULATOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 1B1; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 2C11; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 3B12; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 3H10; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 4C1; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY 4E9; RECOMBINANT PROTEIN; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHO CELL; CONCENTRATION RESPONSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG TARGETING; GRAVES DISEASE; HETEROLOGOUS EXPRESSION; HORMONAL REGULATION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; MOLECULAR RECOGNITION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SERUM;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CHO CELLS; CRICETINAE; CYCLIC AMP; EPITOPES; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; MICE; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN;

EID: 0141504970     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2265.2003.01864.x     Document Type: Article

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