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ReviewThyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association2008

Cytokines, Graves' disease, and thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy.

Andrew G Gianoukakis, Nicole Khadavi, Terry J Smith

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Review in Thyroid : official journal of the American Thyroid Association, 2008. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 53 papers.

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53citing papers in PubMed
2.5field-weighted citation impact, top 10% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

53 citing papers in PubMed, 140 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Andrew G GianoukakisDivision of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, California 90502, USA. agianouk@ucla.edu
Nicole Khadavi
Terry J Smith
UCLA Medical Center · US

Funding

REGULATION OF RETROOCULAR CONNECTIVE TISSUER01EY008976 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI SMITH, TERRY J · 1993 to 2020
$6.4M
FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY OF ORBITAL FIBROBLASTSR01EY011708 · NEI · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI SMITH, TERRY J · 1997 to 2011
$4.3M
Immunoglobulin Activation of FibroblastsR01DK063121 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI SMITH, TERRY J · 2004 to 2012
$3.2M
IMPROVEMENT OF ANIMAL HEALTH PROGRAMG20RR017034 · NCRR · ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY · PI BEERS, WILLIAM C · 2002 to 2002
$698k
NCRR NIH HHS RR017034NEI NIH HHS EY008976NEI NIH HHS EY011708NIDDK NIH HHS DK063121
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Graves' disease, an autoimmune process associated with thyroid dysfunction, can also manifest as remodeling of orbital connective tissue. Affected tissues exhibit immune responses that appear to be orchestrated by resident cells and those recruited from the bone marrow through their expression and release of cytokines and surface display of cytokine receptors. Cytokines are small molecules produced by many types of cells, including those of the "professional" immune system. Aberrant cytokine expression appears to play an important role in the pathogenesis of many human diseases, including thyroid autoimmunity. The skewed pattern of cytokine expression in the thyroid, including the T helper cell bias, may condition the response to apoptotic signals and determine the characteristics of an autoimmune reaction. Furthermore, chemoattractant cytokines, including IL16, RANTES, and CXCL10, elaborated by resident cells in the thyroid and orbit may provoke mononuclear cell infiltration. Other cytokines may drive cell activation and tissue remodeling. Thus cytokines and the signaling pathways they activate represent attractive therapeutic targets. Interruption of these might alter the natural course of Graves' disease and its orbital manifestations.

Indexed as

ApoptosisAutoimmunityBone Marrow CellsChemotactic FactorsCytokinesGraves DiseaseGraves OphthalmopathyHumansImmune SystemInflammationModels, BiologicalOrbitSignal TransductionThyroid GlandChemotactic FactorsCytokines

Identifiers

PMID18713026
PMCPMC2879490
OpenAlexW2057289584

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