Thyroid Autoimmunity

Graves’ Disease: A Paradigm for Autoimmunity.- Nature of Thyroid Autoantigens: The TSH Receptor.- Progress in Understanding the Thyroid Microsomal Antigen.- A Possible Role of Bacterial Antigens in the Pathogenesis of Autoimmune Thyroid Disease.- “ATRA I”: A New Autoantiaen in Autoimmune Thyroid Disease.- Monoclonal Antibodies in the Study of Thyroid Autoantigens and Autoantibodies.- LATS/TSAb: Then and Now.- Pathogenic Roles of TSH Receptor Antibodies in Graves’ Disease.- Physlopathological Relevance of Thyroid Stimulating Antibody (TSAb) Measurements in Graves’ Disease.- TSH Receptor Autoantibodies Affecting Thyroid Cell Function.- Heterogeneity of TSH Receptor-directed Antibodies (TRAb) and Their Significance.- Humoral Factors in Graves1 Ophthalmopathy.- Immunoregulatory Abnormalities in Autoimmune Thyroid Disease.- Intrathyroidal Lymphocytes, Thyroid Autoantibodies and Thyroid Destruction.- Cellular Mechanisms for Autoimmune Damage in Thyroid-Associated Ophthalmopathy.- Thyroid Infiltrating T Lymphocytes in Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: Phenotypic and Functional Analysis at Single Cell Level.- An in Vitro Model for Thyroid Autoimmunity.- Genetic Aspects of Graves’ Disease.- Thyroid and Related Autoimmune Disorders: Challenging the Dogmas.- Molecular and Functional Characterization of Genes Encoding Anti-Thyroglobulin and Anti-TSH Receptor Antibodies.- Autoantigenicity of Murine Thyroglobulin.- IgG Subclass Distribution of Anti-Tg Antibodies among Thyroid Disease Patients and Their Relatives and in High and Low Responder Mouse Strains.- Genetic Basis of Spontaneous Autoimmune Thyroiditis.- Heterotransplantation of Autoimmune Human Thyroid to Nude Mice as a Tool for in Vivo Autoimmune Research.- Post-Partum Thyroid Dysfunction.- Autoimmune and AutonomousToxic Goiter; Differentiation and Clinical Outcome after Drug Treatment.- Postpartum Onset of Graves’ Disease.- Thyrotropin-Binding Inhibitor Immunoglobulins in Primary Hypothyroidism.- Thyroid Function Modulates Thymic Endocrine Activity.- The BB/W Rat, a Model for “Tgl-associated Goitre”.- Non-Thyroidal Complications of Graves’ Disease: Perspective on Pathogenesis and Treatment.- Cross Reactivity between Antibodies to Human Thyroglobulin and Torpedo Acetylcholinesterase in Patients with Graves’ Ophthalmopathy.- Multiple Autoantiqenic Determinants in Thyroid Autoimmunity.- Further Characterization of the Thyroid Microsomal Antigen by Monoclonal Antibodies.- Molecular Cloning of a Thyroid Peroxidase cDNA Fragment Encoding Epitopes Involved in Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis iHT).- Further Evidence that Thyroid Peroxidase and “Microsomal Antigen” Are the Same Entity.- Competitive and Immunometric Radioassays for the Measurement of Anti-Thyroid Peroxidase Autoantibodies in Human Sera.- Thyroid Peroxidase and the “Microsomal Antigen”, Cannot Be Distinguished by Immunofluorescence on Cultured Thyroid Cells.- Measurement of Anti-alpha-Galactosyl Antibodies in the Course of Various Thyroid Disorders and Isolation of an Antigenic Glycopeptide Fraction.- The IgG Subclass Distribution on Thyroid Autoantibodies in Graves’ Disease.- Thyroid Hormone Binding Autoantibodies (THBA) in Humans and Animals.- High Frequency of Interferon-Gamma Producing T Cells in Thyroid Infiltrates of Patients with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis.- Lymphoklne Production and Functional Activities of T Cell Clones from Thyroid Gland of Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis.- Circulatory Thyroglobulin Threshold in Suppressor Activation.- Thyroglobulin Autoantibody IgG Subclasses; Regulation by T Cells.-Cellular Immunity and Specific Defects of T-cell Suppression in Patients with Autoimmune Thyroid Disorders.- The Influence of lnterleukin-1 on the Function of Human Thyroid Cells.- Immunohistochemical Characterisation of Lymphocytes in Experimental Autoimmune Thyroiditis.- Lambda Light Chain Restriction in the Diffuse Thyroid Lymphoid infiltrate in Untreated Graves’ Disease.- Natural Killer Cell Activity in Hashimoto, Graves’ Disease and Euthyroid Exophthalmos.- Interaction of Purified Graves’ Immunoglobulins with the TSH-receptor.- Thyroid Stimulating Immunoglobulins without Evidence of inVivo Thyroid Stimulation in Some Non-thyroid Autoimmune Disease.- The Effect of Thyroid Stimulating Immunoglobulins (TSI) on Thyroid cAMP: Comparison with TSH Activity.- Proliferation in Cultivated Follicles of Graves’ Thyroids: Immunohistochemical Studies with Antibody KI-67.- The Significance of Immunoglobulins Related to Stimulation of Thyroid Growth in Patients with Endemic Goiter.- Regulation of Growth of Thyroid Cells in Culture by TSH Receptor Antibodies and Other Humoral Factors.- Polyamine Modulation of Responses to Graves’ IgG in Guinea Pig and Human Thyroid.- Evidence for Intrathyroidal Production of Thyroid Growth-Stimulating Immunoglobulins.- Presence of Thyroid Growth Promoting Antibody in Patients with Graves’ Disease in Remission: Medical versus Surgical Therapy.- Thyrotropin and Growth Promoting Immunoglobulin (TGI) of FRTL-5 Cells Have no Growth Stimulating Activity on Human Thyroid Epithelial Cell Cultures.- Autoantibodies Stimulating Thyroid Growth and Adenylate Cyclase Cannot Be Separated in IgGs from Graves’ Disease.- Antiidiotypic Blocking of Graves’ Disease Biologic Activity with Autologous Sera but not Consistently with Homologous Sera:Evidence for Polyclonality of Thyroid Receptor Antibodies (TRAb).- Autoantibodies Blocking the TSH-induced Adenylate Cyclase Stimulation in Idiopathic Myxedema and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis.- Relevance of Maternal Thyroid Autoantibodies on the Development of Congenital Hypothyroidism.- Ability of Immunoglobulins from Patients with Thyroid Disease to Stimulate Skin Fibroblasts.- Some Evidences that Thyrotropin and Autoantibodies Binding Sites are Locatea on Different Polypeptide Chains of * Thyroid Plasma Membrane Proteins.- Presence of Thyroid Growth Promoting Antibody in Patients with Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis: Effect of Long-term Thyroxine Treatment.- Limited Clinical Value of TBI I and TSAb for Prediction of the Outcome of Patients with Graves’ Disease.- TSH Receptor Antibodies in Neonatal Hyperthyroidism.- Thyroid Autoimmunity as a Major Cause for Congenital Hypothyroidism.- Thyroid Growth Blocking Antibodies in Congenital Hypothyroidism.- Incidence of TSH Receptor Antibodies in Patients with Toxic Diffuse Goiter.- Blocking Antibodies Apparently without Any Stimulatory Activity Are Present in Sera of Patients with Graves’ Disease.- Increased Frequency of HLA-DR5 in Metro Toronto Patients with Goitrous Autoimmune Thyroiditis and Post-partum Thyroiditis.- Post-partum Thyroid Dysfunction and HLA Status.- Methimazole, gamma-Interferon and Graves’ Disease.- The Prognostic Value of Combined Measurement of Thyroid-stimulating Antibody and Serum Thyroglobulin Levels during Graves’ Disease Long Term Thionamide Treatment.- Serum Thyroid Autoantibodies in a Long-term Study of Thyrostatic Treatment of Graves1 Disease.- The Effect of High Doses of Carbimazole in Patients with Graves’ Disease and in Subjects with Thyroid Antibodies.- Thymulin Deficiency and Low T3Syndrome in Infants with Low-Birth-weight Syndromes.- Constitutive Expression of HLA Class II Molecules in Human Thyroid Cells Transfected with SV-40.- Specific DNA Polymorphism in the DQ Alpha Region of Patients with Graves’ Disease and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis.- Survey of Post-partum Thyroid Antimicrosomal Autoantibody as a Marker for Thyroid Dysfunction.- HLA Region Gene Involvement in Congenital Hypothyroidism.- Probability of a Beneficial, Dose-dependent, Immunosuppressive Action of Carbimazole in Graves’ Disease.- Evidence for DR-Ag-expression by RHS-cells and not by Thyroid Epithelial Cells.- HLA-DR-ß Gene Analysis in Patients with Graves’ Disease.- Immune Signals Fail to Elicit Endocrine Responses in the Obese Strain (OS) of Chickens with Hashimoto-like Autoimmune Thyroiditis.- Inappropriate HLA Class II Expression in a Wide Variety of Thyroid Diseases.- Adverse Reactions Related to Methimazole and Propylthiouracil Doses.- Thyroid Suppressibility in Graves’ Disease: Relationship with Thyroid Stimulating Antibody and Serum Thyroalobulin Levels.- Influence of Lymphokines and Thyroid Hormones on Natural Killer Activity.- Results of Thyrostatic Drug Treatment in Hyperthyroidism. A Clinical Long-term Study.- Predictive Use of TSH-receptor Antibodies Assay as a Prognostic Index in Graves’ Patients Treated with Antithyroid Drugs or Radioactive-Iodine.- Affinity Purification of Orbital Antigens Using Human Monoclonal Antibodies in Graves’ Ophthalmopathy.- The Exophthalmos-related Eye Muscle Antigens Are not Related to Thyroid Antigens: Lack of Binding Inhibition Using Thyroid Microsomes and Thyroglobulin.- Humoral Immunity in Graves’ Ophthalmopathy.- Autoantibodies of IgM and IgG Class against Eye Muscle Antigens in Patients wltfi GravesOphthalmopathy.- Endocrine Exophthalmos - Natural History and Results of Treatment.- Immunosuppressive Treatment of Graves’ Ophthalmopathy with Cyclosporin A and Ciamexon.- Treatment of Graves’ Ophthalmopathy by Retrobulbar Corticosteroids Associated with Orbital Cobalt Radiotherapy.- Immunological Features of Simple Endemic Goitre.- Thyroid Autoimmunity in Five Samples of General Population in Italy.- Prevalence of Hypothyroidism and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis in Two Elderly Populations at Different Dietary Iodine Intake.- Evidence of the Influence of Iodine Intake on the Prevalence of Autoimmune Factors in Hyperthyroid Patients Living in an Endemic Goitre Area.- Further Data on Iodine-induced Autoimmunity.- Study of Class I and Class II Antigen Expression and Lymphocytic Infiltrate on Thyroid Tumors.- Incidence of Anti-thyroid Autoantibodies in Thyroid Cancer Patients.- Thyroid Autoantibodies in Thyroid Cancer.- Some Aspects of Cell Mediated Autoimmunity in Endemic Nodular Goitre.- Chronic Lymphocytic Thyroiditis in Endemic Goiter: Local Ig Production and Deposition.- Autoimmune Thyroid Disease in the City of Graves.- A Retrospective Study of Thyroid Autoimmunity and Hypothyroidism in a Random Obese Population.- Circulating Thyroid Autoantibodies in Children and Youngsters with Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus (IDDM) Are not Predictive of Overt Autoimmune Thyroid Disease.- Effects of Chronic Amiodarone Administration on Humoral Thyroid Autoimmunity.- Serum Thyroid Autoantibodies in Patients with Breast Cancer.- Complement Activities and Circulating Immune Complexes in Sera of Patients with Graves’ Disease and Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis.- Abnormalities of Thyroid Function in Sjogren’s Syndrome.- 6, Lombardi, F.S. AmbesHmpiombato and G, Marone Thyroid andRenal Amyloidosis in Thyroglobulin Immunized Rabbits.- Absence of Thyroglobulin in Kidney of Patients with Autoimmune Thyroiditis and Nephropathies.- Persistence of Autoimmune Reactions During Recovering of Subacute Thyroiditis.- Purified Protein Derivative Reaction and Urinary Immunosuppressive Acidic Protein in Patients with Subacute Thyroiditis.- Interferences of Circulating Anti-TSH Antibodies in Methods for Thyrotropin Measurement.