Identification of Thyroglobulin and its Isoforms as Target Antigens for IgG4 Thyroiditis

Copyright: © 2018 Inomata K, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Identification of Thyroglobulin and its Isoforms as Target Antigens for IgG4 Thyroiditis Keiko Inomata1#*, Hironori Kurisaki2#, Hiroyuki Yamashita1,3, Shinya Sato3, Seigo Tachibana4, Kennichi Kakudo5, Yaqiong Li6, Hidenobu Koga7 and Seiho Nagafuchi8* 1Department of Clinical and Laboratory Medicine, Yamashita Thyroid Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan 2Department of Medical Science and Technology, Graduate School of Medical Sciences, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan 3Department of Surgery, Yamashita Thyroid Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan 4Department of Endocrinology, Yamashita Thyroid Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan 5Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kindai University, Ikoma, Japan 6Department of Pathology, Shandong Provincial Hospital Affiliated to Shandong University, Shandong, PR China 7Clinical Research Support Office, ASO Iizuka Hospital, Iizuka, Japan 8Division of Metabolism and Endocrinology, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Saga, Japan #These authors contributed equally