Influx of recent thymic emigrants into autoimmune thyroid disease glands in humans

Clinical and Experimental Immunology

Volumn 153, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 338-350

  Armengol, M P ^a,b   Sabater, L ^a   Fernandez M ^a   Ruiz M ^a   Alonso, N ^c   Otero, M J ^a,b   Martinez Caceres E ^a   Jaraquemada, D ^b   Pujol Borrell, R ^a,b  

^a FUNDACIÓ INSTITUT D INVESTIGACIÓ EN CIÈNCIES DE LA SALUT GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI GERMANS TRIAS I PUJOL   (Spain)

Author keywords

Autoimmunity; Human; T cells; Thymus; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; CD31 ANTIGEN; CD4 ANTIGEN; CD45RA ANTIGEN; CD8 ANTIGEN; MOLECULAR MARKER; T LYMPHOCYTE RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; ANTIGEN EXPRESSION; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNE DYSREGULATION; IMMUNOLOGICAL TOLERANCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PARAMETER; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERIPHERAL LYMPHOCYTE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECENT THYMIC EMIGRANT; REGULATORY T LYMPHOCYTE; T CELL RECEPTOR EXCISION CIRCLE; T LYMPHOCYTE; TELOMERE; THYMOCYTE; THYMUS; THYMUS FUNCTION;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FLOW CYTOMETRY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SELF TOLERANCE; SPAIN; T-LYMPHOCYTES; TELOMERE; THYMUS GLAND; THYROID DISEASES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 49649102596     PISSN: 00099104     EISSN: 13652249     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.2008.03706.x     Document Type: Article

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