Pituitary autoimmunity: 30 years later

Autoimmunity Reviews

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 631-637

  Caturegli, Patrizio ^a,b   Lupi, Isabella ^c   Landek Salgado, Melissa ^a   Kimura, Hiroaki ^a   Rose, Noel R ^a,b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Hypophysitis; Pituitary antibodies; Pituitary antigens

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ENOLASE; AUTOANTIGEN; CANCER VACCINE; CORTICOTROPIN; CYTOTOXIC T LYMPHOCYTE ANTIGEN 4; FURIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GONADOTROPIN; GROWTH HORMONE; HORMONE ANTIBODY; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; MELANOMA ANTIGEN; PITUITARY GLAND SPECIFIC FACTOR 1A; PITUITARY GLAND SPECIFIC FACTOR 2; PROHORMONE CONVERTASE 1; PROLACTIN; PROTEIN; SECRETOGRANIN II; SECRETOGRANIN V; THYROTROPIN; TUDOR DOMAIN CONTAINING PROTEIN 6; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADRENAL INSUFFICIENCY; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EMPTY SELLA SYNDROME; GONADOTROPIN DEFICIENCY; GROWTH HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOPHYSIS ADENOMA; HYPOPHYSIS DISEASE; HYPOPHYSITIS; HYPOPITUITARISM; IMMUNOTHERAPY; LYMPHOCYTE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MELANOMA; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SELLA TURCICA; THYROTROPIN DEFICIENCY;

ANIMALS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; HUMANS; PITUITARY DISEASES; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY HORMONES;

EID: 50949125774     PISSN: 15689972     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autrev.2008.04.016     Document Type: Review

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