Exposure to DBP and High Iodine Aggravates Autoimmune Thyroid Disease Through Increasing the Levels of IL-17 and Thyroid-Binding Globulin in Wistar Rats.
Instead, our finding that low dietary Se potentiates the development of autoantibodies to Tg and TPO in females is consistent with reports in humans of an increased prevalence of autoimmune thyroiditis in low-Se regions.
The thymuses of these DS individuals contained significantly lower levels of AIRE and thyroglobulin, to which tolerance is typically lost in autoimmune thyroiditis leading to hypothyroidism.
After identifying HLA-DRB1∗03:01 (HLA-DR3) and H2E(b) as susceptibility alleles for Tg-induced experimental autoimmune thyroiditis in transgenic mouse strains, we searched for naturally processed T cell epitopes with MHC class II-binding motif anchors and tested the selected peptides for pathogenicity in these mice.
Our work shows the association between the thyroglobulin gene and autoimmune thyroiditis and reinforce that thyroglobulin is a thyroid-specific susceptibility gene for this disease.
In conclusion, our work showed the association between the thyroglobulin gene and autoimmune thyroiditis in Argentinian population and supports the described evidence of thyroglobulin as a thyroid-specific gene linked to AITD.
A novel H2A-E+ transgenic model susceptible to human but not mouse thyroglobulin-induced autoimmune thyroiditis: identification of mouse pathogenic epitopes.
It has been reported that serum of patients with RTH lacks autoantibodies against thyroglobulin (Tg) and thyroid peroxidase (TPO), except in rare cases where there is co-occurrence of coincidental autoimmune thyroiditis.
Upon immunization with a suboptimal dose of mouse thyroglobulin, IL-12 transgenic mice developed a lymphocytic thyroiditis that was more frequent and severe than that observed in wild-type littermates.
Furthermore, missense single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) in the Tg gene were shown to be associated with autoimmune thyroiditis in both mice and humans.
Characterization of a novel H2A(-)E+ transgenic model susceptible to heterologous but not self thyroglobulin in autoimmune thyroiditis: thyroiditis transfer with Vbeta8+ T cells.
Although GD patients have a higher expectancy for development of autoimmune disorders, and in our 50 patients thyroglobulin and/or microsomal antibodies were detected in 20 (i.e., 40%), we failed to find any increased frequency of specific HLA antigen types known to be associated with juvenile autoimmune thyroiditis.
The tumor necrosis factor beta * 1 allele is linked significantly to HLA-DR8 in Koreans with atrophic autoimmune thyroiditis who are positive for thyrotropin receptor blocking antibody.
Transient congenital hypothyroidism due to maternal thyrotrophin binding inhibitor immunoglobulin (TBII), a thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH)-receptor blocking antibody, is described in three male siblings born to a mother with autoimmune thyroiditis.
The TIGIT and FCRL3 expression levels from T cells of AT cases were inversely related to the thyroid volume, and were significantly increased in hypothyroid patients (on+off L-thyroxine), but not euAT cases.