Thyrotropin Receptor Knockout Mice: Studies on Immunological Tolerance to a Major Thyroid Autoantigen

Endocrinology

Volumn 145, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1294-1301

  Pichurin, Pavel N ^a   Pichurina, Oxana ^a   Marians, Russell C ^b   Chen, Chun Rong ^a   Davies, Terry F ^b   Rapoport, Basil ^a   McLachlan, Sandra M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; EPITOPE; GAMMA INTERFERON; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

AMINO TERMINAL SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL CULTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EUKARYOTE; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX; IMMUNE RESPONSE; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; INJECTION; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SPLEEN CELL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; T LYMPHOCYTE; THYROID GLAND; VACCINATION; WILD TYPE;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOANTIGENS; EPITOPES; FEMALE; IMMUNE TOLERANCE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES;

EID: 1442274633     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2003-1384     Document Type: Article

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