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THE long acting thyroid stimulator (LATS), found in the serum of some thyrotoxic patients, has been shown to be an immunoglobulin G and its absorption by homogenates of thyroid glands suggests that it is an antibody to some component of thyroid cells1. These facts have led to the proposal that LATS may cause primary thyrotoxicosis2.
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EL KABIR, D., HOCKADAY, T. Morphological Changes in the Adrenal Cortex of Experimental Animals after Injection of Sera containing the Long Acting Thyroid Stimulator. Nature 224, 608–609 (1969). https://doi.org/10.1038/224608a0
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