Thyroid autoimmunity and miscarriages: The corpus luteum hypothesis

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 73, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1060-1062

  Toulis, Konstantinos A ^a   Goulis, Dimitrios G ^a   Venetis, Christos A ^a   Kolibianakis, Efstratios M ^a   Tarlatzis, Basil C ^a   Papadimas, Ioannis ^a  

^a PAPAGEORGIOU GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOANTIBODY; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN RECEPTOR; GLYCOPROTEIN; HORMONE RECEPTOR; LUTEINIZING HORMONE; PROGESTERONE; STEROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CHORIOCARCINOMA; CORPUS LUTEUM; CROSS REACTION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; HIGH RISK PREGNANCY; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE INHIBITION; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; PRECOCIOUS PUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FAMILY; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; SPONTANEOUS ABORTION;

ABORTION, SPONTANEOUS; AUTOIMMUNITY; CORPUS LUTEUM; FEMALE; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PREGNANCY; THYROID GLAND;

EID: 70449698625     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2009.05.012     Document Type: Article

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