Assays for thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor antibodies employing different ligands and ligand partners may have similar sensitivity and specificity but are not interchangeable

Thyroid

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 127-133

  Pedersen, Inge Bülow ^a   Handberg, Aase ^b   Knudsen, Nils ^c   Heickendorff, Lene ^b   Laurberg, Peter ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^b AARHUS UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

^c BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; TOXIC GOITER;

ANIMALS; AUTOANTIBODIES; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES; CATTLE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; GOITER, NODULAR; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOGLOBULINS, THYROID-STIMULATING; RECEPTORS, THYROTROPIN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; ROC CURVE; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SWINE; THYROTROPIN;

EID: 77149174176     PISSN: 10507256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/thy.2009.0105     Document Type: Article

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