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Functioning and nonfunctioning thyroid adenomas involve different molecular pathogenetic mechanisms.
The Journal of clinical endocrinology and metabolism - 1 Nov 1999
Tonacchera M, Vitti P, Agretti P, Ceccarini G, Perri A, Cavaliere R, Mazzi B, Naccarato A G, Viacava P, Miccoli P, Pinchera A, Chiovato L
Abstract excerpt
The molecular biology of follicular cell growth in thyroid nodules is still poorly understood. Because gain-of-function (activating) mutations of the thyroid-stimulating hormone receptor (TShR) and/or Gs alpha genes may confer TSh-independent growth advantage to neoplastic thyroid cells, we searched for somatic mutations of these genes in a series of hyperfunctioning and nonfunctioning follicular thyroid adenomas...
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