Vajner L
Institute of Histology and Embryology, 2nd Faculty of Medicine, Charles University, Praha, Czech Republic.
Vet Med (Praha). 1997 Nov;42(11):333-8.
Three serum autoantibodies against antigens of the thyroid gland were detected by the indirect immunofluorescence in a Beagle dog breeding colony. The anti-thyroglobulin autoantibody was present in 10.0%, the anti-microsomal antigen autoantibody was present in 24.6%, and the anti-nuclear substance autoantibody in 10.8% of examined sera, respectively. Only the presence of anti-thyroglobulin autoantibodies could be correlated with histologic findings of the lymphocytic thyroiditis in the same colony.