Article
Association Between IL-18 Gene Polymorphism and Hashimoto Thyroiditis
2021-05-25
Abstract excerpt
<h4>Background: </h4> Hashimoto’s thyroiditis (HT) is the most frequent organ-specific autoimmune disease (AIT), which is called lymphocytic thyroiditis in which T helper-1 lymphocytes mediate the disease. IL-18 is expressed in thyroid follicular cells (TFCs) during HT. The findings of studies aimed at investigating the relationship between IL-18 and HT are highly contradictory. In this study, we aimed to investig...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 67badd48-df79-5128-91e6-48e63aa767a3
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-510648/v1
