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The purpose of the investigation was to comparatively study the possible clinicodiagnostic and clinicoprognostic value of thyroglobulin (TG) autoantibodies (anti-TG autoAB) and thyroid peroxidase (TPO) (anti-TPO autoAB) with proteolytic activity (protease-AB) and to develop additional
OBJECTIVE
To report on the rare simultaneous occurrence of Graves' disease (GD) and Hashimoto's thyroiditis (HT) in monozygotic twins.
METHODS
We compared the pattern of thyroid tissue-derived cDNAs to gain insight into previous and ongoing immune destruction and reconstruction processes using
The lysosomal acid protease is thought to be a main enzyme in hydrolysis of thyroglobulin. The protease activity of lysosome-rich fractions of various diseased thyroid glands were assayed by the sensitive and reproducible method developed in our laboratory. They included 78 diseased thyroid glands;
To delineate the antigenic determinants on thyroglobulin (Tg) recognized by serum autoantibodies and peripheral blood T cells from patients with chronic thyroiditis, we studied the reactivities of three different Tg preparations, i.e. enzyme-digested Tg fragments, physically or chemically denatured
BACKGROUND
Combination therapy with pegylated interferon, ribavirin and a first-generation NS3/4A protease inhibitor, telaprevir or boceprevir, is the new strategy for treatment of genotype 1 chronic hepatitis C virus infection. This combination improves therapeutic efficacy but it also increases
The immunoregulatory neuropeptide vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) was cleaved by purified IgG from Fas-defective C3H/gld mice, lupus patients, and autoimmune thyroiditis patients. No VIPase activity was detected in IgG from control mice and humans. Kinetic analyses of VIPase IgG preparations
Thyroglobulin (Tg) is one of the major thyroid autoantigens involved in autoimmune thyroiditis. The immune response of mice to Tg is genetically controlled by H-2-linked genes. To elucidate the regulation mechanism of autoimmune response to Tg in low responder mice, we studied the proliferative
Antibodies endowed with hydrolytic properties have been described in humans for over a decade in a variety of pathological conditions such as systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), autoimmune thyroiditis, asthma, and Bence Jones disease. Although the identified target substrate molecules have always
More than 180 millions of subjects in the world are infected by Hepatitis C Virus (HCV), and about 20% of them with HCV chronic infection progress to cirrhosis. Furthermore, numerous HCV extrahepatic manifestations have been reported in up to 74% of patients, as mixed cryoglobulinemia, lymphomas,
Cystatin C (Cys C) is a cysteine protease inhibitor produced at a constant rate by nucleated cells, filtered through the glomerular membrane and reabsorbed by kidney tubular cells. Aim of this cross-sectional and longitudinal study was to assess serum Cys C and creatinine (Crea) concentrations in