Sensitive thyroid-stimulating antibody assay with high concentrations of polyethylene glycol for the diagnosis of graves' disease

Clinical and Experimental Pharmacology and Physiology

Volumn 31, Issue 5-6, 2004, Pages 314-319

  Takasu, Nobuyuki ^a   Kamijo, Keiichi ^b   Sato, Ysusi ^b   Yoshimura, Hiroshi ^c   Nagata, Atsuo ^d   Ochi, Yukio ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE RYUKYUS   (Japan)

^b Kamijo Thyroid Research Institute   (Japan)

^c Ito Hpospital   (Japan)

^d YAMASA CORPORATION   (Japan)

^e RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOR PRODUCTION DEVELOPMENT   (Japan)

Author keywords

Thyroid stimulating antibody; Thyroid stimulating hormone receptor antibody; Thyroid stimulating hormone binding inhibitor IgG

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; IMMUNOGLOBULIN; IMMUNOGLOBULIN G; MACROGOL; THYROID STIMULATING HORMONE BINDING INHIBITOR IMMUNOGLOBULIN; THYROID STIMULATING HORMONE RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; THYROID STIMULATING IMMUNOGLOBULIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOASSAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; PATIENT; PRECIPITATION; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STIMULATION; SUBACUTE THYROIDITIS; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS; THYROTOXICOSIS; TOXIC GOITER;

ADULT; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL ASSAY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, THYROID-STIMULATING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYETHYLENE GLYCOLS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 3042573887     PISSN: 03051870     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1440-1681.2004.03991.x     Document Type: Article

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