Cellular immune responses in autoimmune thyroid disease

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 405-413

  Weetman, A P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIGEN; CHEMOKINE; CYTOKINE; DEATH RECEPTOR 5; EPITOPE;

ANTIGEN RECOGNITION; APOPTOSIS; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; AUTOIMMUNE HYPOTHYROIDISM; AUTOIMMUNITY; CELL DESTRUCTION; CELL HETEROGENEITY; CELL MEDIATED CYTOTOXICITY; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; CYTOKINE PRODUCTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HELPER CELL; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOREGULATION; INFLAMMATION; LYMPHOCYTE MIGRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; T LYMPHOCYTE; TH1 CELL; TH2 CELL; THYROID CELL; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND;

AUTOANTIGENS; CYTOKINES; HUMANS; IMMUNITY, CELLULAR; IMMUNOLOGIC MEMORY; INTERLEUKIN-1; T-LYMPHOCYTES, HELPER-INDUCER; THYROID GLAND; THYROIDITIS, AUTOIMMUNE;

EID: 6344262426     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2004.02085.x     Document Type: Review

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