Thyroid autoantibodies are rare in nonhuman great apes and hypothyroidism cannot be attributed to thyroid autoimmunity

Endocrinology

Volumn 154, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 4896-4907

  Aliesky, Holly ^a   Courtney, Cynthia L ^b   Rapoport, Basil ^a   McLachlan, Sandra M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROGLOBULIN ANTIBODY; THYROID ANTIBODY; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID PEROXIDASE ANTIBODY; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN RECEPTOR ANTIBODY; THYROXINE; AUTOANTIBODY; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; THYROGLOBULIN;

ADOLESCENT; APE; ARTICLE; AUTOIMMUNITY; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA BASE; EUTHYROIDISM; FEMALE; FREE LIOTHYRONINE INDEX; FREE THYROXINE INDEX; GORILLA; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN VERSUS ANIMAL COMPARISON; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORANG UTAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CYTOLOGY; HOMINID; IMMUNOLOGY; LYMPHOCYTE; PATHOLOGY; THYROID GLAND; VETERINARY; ZOO ANIMAL;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, ZOO; AUTOANTIBODIES; FEMALE; HOMINIDAE; HUMANS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID GLAND; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 84888222950     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1717     Document Type: Article

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