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Microsomal antibodies and antibodies directed toward the receptor for thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) decreased in parallel while patients with Graves' disease were taking carbimazole, whereas no significant changes were observed during treatment with placebo or propranolol. The changes in autoantibody levels during carbimazole treatment were independent of changes in serum thyroxine and could have been due to a direct effect of the drug on autoantibody synthesis. Evidence for this suggestion was provided when low doses of methimazole (the active metabolite of carbimazole) were found to inhibit thyroid-autoantibody production in cultured lymphocytes. Since thyroid lymphocytes are probably a major site of thyroid-antibody synthesis in Graves' disease and methimazole is concentrated in the thyroid during treatment, a local action of the drug on antibody production seems likely. This possibility could be important in the use of carbimazole to control hyperthyroidism.
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