Fetal microchimeric cells in blood and thyroid glands of women with an autoimmune thyroid disease

Chimerism

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 21-23

  Lepez, Trees ^a   Vandewoestyne, Mado ^a   Deforce, Dieter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Autoimmune thyroid disease; Fetal microchimerism; FISH; Graves disease; Hashimoto thyroiditis; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNE DISEASE; B LYMPHOCYTE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CD8+ T LYMPHOCYTE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL COUNT; CELLULAR IMMUNITY; FETUS CELL; GOITER; GRAFT VERSUS HOST REACTION; GRAVES DISEASE; HASHIMOTO DISEASE; HUMAN; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOPATHOLOGY; MICROCHIMERISM; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THYROID ADENOMA; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID GLAND; Y CHROMOSOME;

EID: 84862686472     PISSN: 19381956     EISSN: 19381964     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4161/chim.19615     Document Type: Article

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