title: Antibody inducing lymphocyte cytotoxicity (ADCC) and lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity in auto-immune thyroid diseases.
abstract: Addition of heat-inactivated serum from patients with autoimmune thyroid diseases to normal nonadherent human lymphoid cells caused significant lysis of thyroglobulin or crude thyroid extract-coated erythrocytes. Serum from 9/10 patients with Hashimoto's thyroiditis induced significant chromium release by normal lymphocytes at higher dilution (greater than 1 : 1 000) than in other thyroid diseases, the mean highest positive dilution being 1 : 535 in Grave's disease and approximately 1 : 200 in primary hypothyroidism, hyperthyroidism without exophthalmos and non toxic goitres. Lymphocyte-mediated cytotoxicity in the absence of serum was found positive on one half of the patients with lymphocyte-dependent antibody. Besides an appraisal of autoimmunization in thyroid diseases, such cell-mediated reactions may indicate how the gland is damaged in autoimmune thyroid diseases.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000920:Antibody-Dependent Cell Cytotoxicity; D001327:Autoimmune Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D003602:Cytotoxicity, Immunologic; D005260:Female; D006042:Goiter / Q000276:immunology; D006111:Graves Disease / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D006980:Hyperthyroidism / Q000276:immunology; D007037:Hypothyroidism / Q000276:immunology; D008214:Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013959:Thyroid Diseases / Q000276:immunology*; D013967:Thyroiditis, Autoimmune / Q000276:immunology