Article
Analysis of retroorbital T cell antigen receptor variable region gene usage in patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy.
European journal of endocrinology - 1 Mar 1995
Heufelder A E, Herterich S, Ernst G, Bahn R S, Scriba P C
Abstract excerpt
To date, it has remained unclear whether orbit-infiltrating T cells in patients with Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO) represent a primary immune response in which a limited number of T cell clones driving the disease are activated against specific antigens, or whether they participate in a non-specifi...
Topics
- Adult
- Base Sequence
- Blotting, Southern
- Down-Regulation
- Female
- Graves Disease
- Humans
- Immunoenzyme Techniques
- Male
- Middle Aged
- Molecular Sequence Data
- Orbit
- Phenotype
- Polymerase Chain Reaction
- Receptors, Antigen, T-Cell
- T-Lymphocytes