Developing brain autoimmune process

PCBs are known to be potent immunotoxins, producing in many animal species atrophy in the thymus gland, a major gland of the immune system. Autism is characterized by immune system parameter deviations, and so it s possible that autism may be a consequence of an autoimmune process in the developing brain resulting from prenatal exposure to PCBs.74... 

The method of detecting iodine supply levels and the evaluation of the effect of the lack or oversupply (Boyages, 1993) of iodine on the condition of the thyroid gland (its size, function and the impact on the autoimmunity process) and the resulting evaluation of the overall condition of health of an entire population (from the occurrence of endemic cretinism due to significant lack of iodine to mild occurrence of brain dysfunction due to lack of iodine during intrauterine development) problems in the development of the somatic. 

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