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Infections, genetic and environmental factors in pathogenesis of autoimmune thyroid diseases.
Microbial pathogenesis - 1 Mar 2018
Shukla Sanjeev Kumar, Singh Govind, Ahmad Shahzad, Pant Prabhat
Abstract excerpt
In Autoimmune disease a combination of infection, genetic and environmental factors causes an autoimmune response to the thyroid gland (characterized by lymphocytic infiltrations), thyroid stimulating hormone receptor (TSHR) and different thyroid antigens. Graves' and Hashimoto disease are autoimmune disorders with genetic predisposition. CD40 that stimulates the proliferation and differentiation of lymphocytes...
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