The link between Graves' disease and Hashimoto's thyroiditis: A role for regulatory T cells

Endocrinology

Volumn 148, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 5724-5733

  McLachlan, Sandra M ^a,c   Nagayama, Yuji ^b   Pichurin, Pavel N ^a   Mizutori, Yumiko ^a   Chen, Chun Rong ^a   Misharin, Alexander ^a   Aliesky, Holly A ^a   Rapoport, Basil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c CEDARS SINAI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CD4 ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR ALPHA; INTERLEUKIN 2 RECEPTOR BETA; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADENOVIRUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY RESPONSE; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; CD4+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; WILD TYPE;

ADENOVIRIDAE; ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; IMMUNIZATION; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, THYROID-STIMULATING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES, REGULATORY; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 36348947507     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2007-1024     Document Type: Article

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