Innate immune activity in plaque of patients with untreated and L-thyroxine-treated subclinical hypothyroidism

Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1015-1020

  Marfella, Raffaele ^a   Ferraraccio, Franca ^a   Rizzo, Maria Rosaria ^a   Portoghese, Michele ^b   Barbieri, Michelangela ^a   Basilio, Crescenzo ^c   Nersita, Roberto ^a   Siniscalchi, Luisa Isabella ^a   Sasso, Ferdinando Carlo ^a   Ambrosino, Immacolata ^a   Siniscalchi, Mario ^a   Maresca, Lucio ^c   Sardu, Celestino ^a   Amato, Gianni ^a   Paolisso, Giuseppe ^a   Carella, Carlo ^a  

^a SECOND UNIVERSITY OF NAPLES   (Italy)

^b Sassari Hospital   (Italy)

^c Hospital V Monaldi   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3 NITROTYROSINE; COLLAGEN; CYTOKINE; GELATINASE B; HLA ANTIGEN; I KAPPA B; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; LEVOTHYROXINE; OXYGEN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA;

AGED; ARTICLE; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASE; ATHEROSCLEROTIC PLAQUE; CAROTID ARTERY OBSTRUCTION; CAROTID ENDARTERECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHYROIDISM; INNATE IMMUNITY; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; MACROPHAGE; MALE; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; T LYMPHOCYTE;

AGED; ASYMPTOMATIC DISEASES; ATHERECTOMY; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; FEMALE; HORMONE REPLACEMENT THERAPY; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNITY, INNATE; INFLAMMATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PLAQUE, ATHEROSCLEROTIC; THYROXINE;

EID: 79953854854     PISSN: 0021972X     EISSN: 0021972X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/jc.2010-1382     Document Type: Article

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