Nature Communications (Feb 2022)

Lymphocyte infiltration and thyrocyte destruction are driven by stromal and immune cell components in Hashimoto’s thyroiditis

  • Qian-Yue Zhang,
  • Xiao-Ping Ye,
  • Zheng Zhou,
  • Chen-Fang Zhu,
  • Rui Li,
  • Ya Fang,
  • Rui-Jia Zhang,
  • Lu Li,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Zheng Wang,
  • Shi-Yang Song,
  • Sang-Yu Lu,
  • Shuang-Xia Zhao,
  • Jian-Nan Lin,
  • Huai-Dong Song

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-28120-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Hashimoto’s Thyroiditis is an autoimmune disease with a complex pathomechanism. Authors here show by single cell RNA sequencing that the thyroidal microenvironment in the disease is characterised by three stromal cell subtypes that are potentially responsible for the recruitment of infiltrating inflammatory immune cells, such as macrophages and dendritic cells.