About 25-50% of Graves' disease (GD) patients develop thyroid eye diseases, which is associated with inflammatory process and abnormalities in the levels of several cytokines in orbital tissues in GD. The aim of this study was to determine the Th1 and Th2 serum cytokines in patients with GD with or without ophthalmopathy. Serum levels of cytokines and autoantibodies including Interferon-gamma (...

Objective: The clinical diagnosis of autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD) is usually confirmed by detection of various antibodies in the patient’s blood or by histopathological evaluation. In this study, we evaluated the prevalence of serum antibodies in histopathologically proven AITD and assessed the correlation between antibodies and thyroid dysfunction. Methods: 100 consecutive patients with ...

BACKGROUND Thyroid autoimmunity has been suggested as a risk factor for atherosclerosis independent of thyroid function in several studies. The aim of this study was to investigate whether thyroid autoimmunity had any effect on hyperlipidaemia, obesity and abdominal obesity independent of thyroid function. MATERIAL AND METHODS 184 premenopausal female patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT...

Crude thyroid peroxidase extracted from human thyroid microsomes was covalently bound onto polyacrylic and polyfunctional copolymerized microparticles. We observed agglutination of the thyroid peroxidase-microparticle conjugate with 13 monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) specific for epitopes on four different antigenic domains of human thyroid peroxidase (TPO; EC 1.11.1.7), after addition of anti-mou...

INTRODUCTION Chronic lymphocytic thyroiditis [Hashimoto thyroiditis (HT)] is a common thyroid lesion diagnosed on fine-needle aspiration cytology (FNAC). Apart from FNAC, various other parameters, such as clinical features, ultrasonographic findings, antithyroid antibody levels, hormone profiles, and radionuclide thyroid scan, are also taken into consideration in making a diagnosis of HT. AIM...

the host thyroid. The tumors themselves showed extremely low incorporation, although thyroidectomy of the host significantly increased the incorporation in the tumors. However, results of incorporation experiments do not distinguish the transitional from the autonomous tumors. Tumor growth also caused iodide peroxidase activity in the host thyroid to decline. The enzyme activity in the transiti...