Autoantibodies against complement C1q correlate with the thyroid function in patients with autoimmune thyroid disease

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 153, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 96-101

  Potlukova, E ^a   Jiskra, J ^a   Limanova, Z ^a   Kralikova, P ^a   Smutek, D ^a   Mareckova, H ^a   Antosova, M ^a   Trendelenburg, M ^b  

^a CHARLES UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BASEL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Anti C1q antibodies; Complement; Graves' disease; Hashimoto's thyroiditis

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C1Q; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR; THYROXINE;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NODULAR GOITER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGED; AUTOANTIBODIES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COMPLEMENT C1Q; FEMALE; GOITER; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THYROID FUNCTION TESTS; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 44949214038     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: 13652249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2008.03670.x     Document Type: Article

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