The cardiac calsequestrin gene (CASQ2) is up-regulated in the thyroid in patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy - Support for a role of autoimmunity against calsequestrin as the triggering event

Clinical Endocrinology

Volumn 73, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 522-528

  Wescombe, Leon ^a   Lahooti, Hooshang ^a   Gopinath, Bamini ^a   Wall, Jack R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

B7 ANTIGEN; CALSEQUESTRIN; MYELOID DIFFERENTIATION FACTOR 88; OSTEOGENIC PROTEIN 1; SOMATOMEDIN BINDING PROTEIN 5; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DOWN REGULATION; ENDOCRINE OPHTHALMOPATHY; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC CODE; GRAVES DISEASE; HUMAN; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RNA EXTRACTION; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AUTOIMMUNITY; CALSEQUESTRIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GRAVES OPHTHALMOPATHY; HUMANS; HYPERTHYROIDISM; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SUCCINATE DEHYDROGENASE; THYROID GLAND; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 77953401161     PISSN: 03000664     EISSN: 13652265     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2265.2009.03753.x     Document Type: Article

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