## Abstract We raised an antihuman thyrotropin anti‐idiotypic antibody and showed that it was active at the thyrotropin receptor. Thus this antibody inhibited ^125^I b‐TSH binding to thyroid plasma membranes, stimulated adenylate cyclase activity through a guanyl nucleotide‐dependent mechanism, inc
Biological activity of anti-thyrotropin anti-idiotypic antibody
✍ Scribed by M. N. Islam; Barbara M. Pepper; Rosario Briones-Urbina; Nadir R. Farid
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1983
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 854 KB
- Volume
- 13
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0014-2980
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✦ Synopsis
Rabbit anti-rat anti-human thyrotropin anti-idiotypic antibodies have been raised. These antibodies were active at the thyrotropin (TSH) receptor, in that they inhibited 125I-labeled bovine TSH binding to thyroid plasma membranes, stimulated adenylate cyclase activity through a guanyl nucleotide-dependent mechanism, augmented radioiodide transport into isolated porcine thyroid follicular cells and induced such cultured cells to organize into follicles. Aside from substantiating the expectation that anti-hormone anti-idiotypic antibodies may possess properties of the original hormone, this work raised the possibility that thyroid-stimulating antibodies which cause the hyperthyroidism of Graves' disease may be anti-TSH anti-idiotypic antibodies.
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