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    Ter Arkh. 1995;67(1):41-2.

    [The interrelationship of the thyroid and immune statuses of workers with long-term fluorine exposure]

    [Article in Russian]

    Balabolkin MI, Mikhaĭlets ND, Lobovskaia RN, Chernousova NV.

    Thyroid and immune statuses were studied in workers continuously exposed to fluorine. The examinees with euthyroid condition had immune disorders with an allergic tendency (increased number of B-lymphocytes, immunoglobulins A). In workers with subclinical hypothyrosis (tri-iodothyronine reduced in 51%), the immune alterations were more evident, T-lymphocytes count rose, but their functional activity declined, indicating impaired cooperation of immunocytes as a result of imperfect control under low concentrations of tri-iodothyronine.

    PMID: 7709355 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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