the disturbed homeostasis of the immune system in obese strain ( os ) chickens with spontaneous autoimmune thyroiditis consists in a general t cell hyperreactivity ( concanavalin a hyperresponsiveness , interleukin 2 ( il 2 ) hypersecretion ) , particularly expressed by those lymphocytes which infiltrate the diseased thyroid gland .
C0677607
autoimmune thyroiditis
C0040132
thyroid gland