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gland

Specialized organ of the body that manufactures and secretes enzymes, hormones, or other chemicals. In animals, glands vary in size from small (for example, tear glands) to large (for example, the pancreas), but in plants they are always small, and may consist of a single cell. Some glands discharge their products internally, endocrine glands, and others externally, exocrine glands. Lymph nodes are sometimes wrongly called glands.
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Key Words: autoimmune thyroid disease, Graves disease, celiac disease, hypoparathyroidism, autoimmune polyglandular syndromes ********** Graves disease, celiac disease and idiopathic hypoparathyroidism are all thought be autoimmune in pathogenesis.
Celiac disease occurring in a patient with hypoparathyroidism and ... by Bedi, Anil / Southern Medical Journal
As many as 40% of patients with idiopathic Addison's disease may exhibit polyglandular endocrine syndromes in which immunologic tissue injuries occur in the thyroid, parathyroid, ovary, pancreas, and skin.
Human autoimmune diseases: Progress in clinical laboratory tests by Nakamura, Robert M. / Medical Laboratory Observer
11) In a subsequent study, 56% of patients with acquired hypoparathyroidism and autoimmune polyglandular syndrome 1 had autoantibodies directed against the extracellular portion of the parathyroid calcium-sensing receptor (CaSR), the autoantigen now suggested to cause parathyroid failure.
Thymoma-associated hypocalcemic crisis by Nylen, Eric S. / Southern Medical Journal
 
 
 
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