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The-main stream interest in autoimmune thyroid diseases (AITD) is focused on hypotheses such as clonal deletion, the network theory or the cellular regulatory circuit of helper and suppressor cells.
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Wenzel, B.E., Gutekunst, R., Heesemann, J. (1991). Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis and Enteropathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica . In: Scherbaum, W.A., Bogner, U., Weinheimer, B., Bottazzo, G.F. (eds) Autoimmune Thyroiditis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76301-4_23
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