A mechanistic linkage between oral lichen planus and autoimmune thyroid disease.

Jairo Robledo-SierraK Landin-WilhelmsenH Filipsson NyströmR EggertsenL LarssonA DafarG WarfvingeU MattssonM Jontell

Published in: Oral diseases (2018)

A significant number of patients with OLP who are not previously diagnosed with thyroid disease have thyroid parameters that are compatible with hypothyroidism. The expression of thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor in OLP lesions suggests that mechanisms related to autoimmune thyroid disease are involved in the aetiology of OLP.

Keyphrases

multiple sclerosis
poor prognosis
genome wide
gene expression
drug induced
long non coding rna