Comparison of cytokine levels in sera of patients with autoimmune endocrinopathies

Title:

Comparison of cytokine levels in sera of patients with autoimmune endocrinopathies

Creator:

Pavlína Hrdá, Ivan Šterzl, and Petr Matucha

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Subject:

Fyziologie člověka a srovnávací fyziologie, cytokiny, cytokines, autoimmune thyroiditis, APS type II, polyglandular activation of autoimmunity, 14, and 612

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Description:

Autoimmune endocrinopathies can be divided according to the presence of organ specific autoantibodies and according to the clinical manifestations into isolated autoimmune endocrinopathies, autoimmune polyglandular syndromes (APS) and polyglandular activation of autoimmunity (PAA). Many factors take part in the development of the autoimmune disease: predominantly a genetic predisposition, environmental etiologic causes and dysregulation in the microenvironment of the target organ. Until now it is not completely clear, if manifestations of the clinical disease depend primarily upon external factors and the degree of regulation mechanism disorder (e.g. in Th1/Th2 regulation) or upon the different genetic predisposition. In this work we compared the levels of Th1 and Th2 lymphocyte cytokines in peripheral blood in three groups of patients: group A of 30 patients with autoimmune thyroiditis, group B of 25 patients with PAA, and group C of 10 patients with APS type II. From group of Th1 cytokines IL-2 and IFN-Ύ were detected, whereas from group of Th2 cytokines IL-4 and IL-10 were determined by ELISA kit. We did not find any differences in the concentrations of IL-2, IFN-Ύ, IL-4 and IL-10 among the groups of patients with autoimmune endocrinopathies., P. Hrdá, I. Šterzl, P. Matucha., and Obsahuje bibliografii

Language:

English

Rights:

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Source:

Physiological research | 2003 Volume:52 | Number:2

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