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Wilders-Truschnig, MM; Drexhage, HA; Leb, G; Eber, O; Brezinschek, HP; Dohr, G; Lanzer, G; Krejs, GJ.
Chromatographically purified immunoglobulin G of endemic and sporadic goiter patients stimulates FRTL5 cell growth in a mitotic arrest assay.
J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 1990; 70(2):444-452 Doi: 10.1210/jcem-70-2-444
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Leading authors Med Uni Graz: Truschnig-Wilders Martini
Co-authors Med Uni Graz: Brezinsek Hans-Peter; Dohr Gottfried; Krejs Günter Josef; Lanzer Gerhard; Leb Georg
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Abstract:: A strain of differentiated rat thyroid cells (FRTL5) in continuous culture was used to study the presence of thyroid growth-promoting immunoglobulins (TGI) in the serum of patients with endemic and sporadic euthyroid goiters. To identify true in vitro cell proliferation a microscopic mitotic arrest assay was used. Immunoglobulins G (IgGs) were prepared with QAE-Sephadex A-50 or protein-A-Sepharose. A positive growth stimulation index was found in IgG preparations of 65 of 71 patients with endemic goiter and in 9 of 14 IgG preparations of patients with sporadic goiter. IgG preparations of 15 control subjects from an area where endemic goiter due to iodine deficiency does not occur and of 18 subjects without iodine deficiency and without thyroid enlargement living in the endemic area did not stimulate FRTL5 cell growth. FRTL5 cell growth stimulation with IgGs of these euthyroid goiter patients could only be detected when IgG was tested in combination with a small dose of TSH. Immunoprecipitation with polyclonal and monoclonal antihuman IgG was able to abolish the growth-promoting effects. In 32 blinded samples the Feulgen cytobiochemical assay, formerly used to detect TGI, was compared with the FRTL5 mitotic arrest assay. The two methods showed similar results. Our observations of chromatographically purified IgG promoting thyroid cell proliferation in vitro provide good evidence that IgG was responsible for thyroid cell growth in vitro and suggest that autoimmune growth mechanisms may be involved in the pathogenesis of both endemic and sporadic goiters.
Find related publications in this database (using NLM MeSH Indexing): Adult -; Aged -; Animals -; Autoantibodies - isolation and purification Autoantibodies - pharmacology; Cell Line -; Densitometry -; Dose-Response Relationship, Drug -; Female -; Goiter, Endemic - immunology; Humans -; Immunoglobulin G - isolation and purification Immunoglobulin G - pharmacology; Immunoglobulins, Thyroid-Stimulating -; Iodine - pharmacology; Male -; Middle Aged -; Mitosis - drug effects; Mitotic Index - drug effects; Staining and Labeling -; Thyroid Gland - cytology Thyroid Gland - drug effects Thyroid Gland - immunology; Thyrotropin - pharmacology