T lymphocyte cytokine production patterns in Hashimoto patients with elevated calcitonin levels and their relationship to tumor initiation

Anticancer Research

Volumn 26, Issue 6 B, 2006, Pages 4591-4596

  Schuetz, Matthias ^a   Duan, Heying ^a   Wahl, Katharina ^a   Pirich, Christian ^a   Antoni, Anna ^a   Kommata, Spyridoula ^a   Kletter, Kurt ^a   Dudczak, Robert ^a   Karanikas, Georgios ^a   Willheim, Martin ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

C cell hyperplasia; Calcitonin; Cytokines; Hashimoto's thyroiditis; Medullary thyroid carcinoma; T lymphocytes

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; GAMMA INTERFERON; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CALCITONIN BLOOD LEVEL; CARCINOGENESIS; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; PERIPHERAL BLOOD MONONUCLEAR CELL; PRECANCER; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADULT; AGED; CALCITONIN; CD4-POSITIVE T-LYMPHOCYTES; CYTOKINES; FEMALE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; T-LYMPHOCYTES; THYROID NEOPLASMS;

EID: 33845962230     PISSN: 02507005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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