Recommendations for a revised nomenclature of thyroid autoantigens and autoantibodies. Ad Hoc Committee of the European Thyroid Association (ETA), American Thyroid Association (ATA), Asia and Oceania Thyroid Association (AOTA) and Latin American Thyroid Association (LATA).
1991
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Terminology as Topic
Works about the terms, expressions, designations, or symbols used in a particular science, discipline, or specialized subject area.
Etymology,Nomenclature as Topic,Etymologies
D001323
Autoantibodies
Antibodies that react with self-antigens (AUTOANTIGENS) of the organism that produced them.
Autoantibody
D001324
Autoantigens
Endogenous tissue constituents with the ability to interact with AUTOANTIBODIES and cause an immune response.
A highly vascularized endocrine gland consisting of two lobes joined by a thin band of tissue with one lobe on each side of the TRACHEA. It secretes THYROID HORMONES from the follicular cells and CALCITONIN from the parafollicular cells thereby regulating METABOLISM and CALCIUM level in blood, respectively.