Iodide, cytokines and TSH-receptor expression in Graves' disease

Experimental and Clinical Endocrinology & Diabetes : Official Journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association
F SchuppertL D Kohn

Abstract

The present study was initiated to characterize thyrotropin receptor (TSH-R) expression in thyroids from patients with Graves' disease, as well as parameters that influence TSH-R expression either causally, such as interferon-gamma (IFN-gamma), the leading candidate among the cytokines thought to play a key role in the initiation of autoimmune thyroid disease, or therapeutically, such as iodide, which is used to prepare patients for surgery. Our data show that there is an average 4-fold increase of TSH-R mRNA levels in the thyroids of Graves' patients coming to surgery, which is paralleled by an increase in TSH-R protein levels and TSH binding capacity. The increase does not appear to be related to IFN-gamma since IFN-gamma transcripts are barely detectable in most Graves' patients. Iodide treatment causes a 2-fold decrease in TSH-R expression in association with significant decreases in major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I and class II gene expression. These last data are compatible with a recently enunciated "transcription factor hypothesis" according to which abnormally high TSH-R and MHC class I and class II gene expression in Graves' thyroids are the result of a loss of the normal negative regulation of these gen...Continue Reading

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Jul 17, 2001·Clinical Endocrinology·J D Bretz, J R Baker
Feb 23, 2002·Cell Death and Differentiation·J D BretzJ R Baker

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