Lymphocyte traffic and homing in autoimmune thyroid disorders
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Lymphocyte traffic and homing in autoimmune thyroid disorders.
Human autoimmune thyroid disorders (AITD) – Graves’ disease (GD) and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) – are characterized by reactivity to self thyroid antigens, which may be expressed as destructive inflammatory or anti-receptor autoimmune diseases (1–3). In AITD, the autoimmune process is probably initiated by the activation of autoreactive T cells by an MHC II/self antigen complex and a co-stimu...
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عنوان ژورنال: European Journal of Endocrinology
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0804-4643,1479-683X
DOI: 10.1530/eje.0.1400287