Why do some autoimmune thyroid patients get too much hormone and others too little?

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Immune-parenchymal multicellular niches are shared across distinct thyroid autoimmune diseases

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Summary

Even though Hashimoto’s and Graves’ disease cause opposite thyroid problems, they both involve the immune system attacking the thyroid in similar ways.

Proposed Mechanism
CD8+ T cell niche-mediated segregation of pathogenic immunity from thyroid function
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