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H J De Assis-Paiva1, D C Rayner, I M Roitt, A Cooke.
Abstract
We have investigated the responsiveness to thyroglobulin (Tg) plus complete Freund's adjuvant (CFA) and B. pertussis in a variety of inbred and MHC congenic strains of rats in terms of both Tg-autoantibody titres and histological thyroiditis index. Severity of thyroiditis was strongly Tg-dependent and closely related to the RT.1-MHC haplotype. Phenotypic examination of the inflammatory thyroid infiltrate using single and double indirect immunofluorescence techniques revealed a high proportion of macrophages and T lymphocytes, mainly of the cytotoxic/suppressor subset, in the high responder strains. Thyroid epithelial class II MHC expression although not prominent was strain-restricted and related to the amount of Ia+ leukocyte infiltrate.Entities:
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Year: 1989 PMID: 2649281 PMCID: PMC1541870
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Clin Exp Immunol ISSN: 0009-9104 Impact factor: 4.330