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The sodium iodide symporter: its pathophysiological and therapeutic implications.
Clinical endocrinology - 1 Nov 2002
Spitzweg Christine, Morris John C
Abstract excerpt
The sodium iodide symporter (NIS) is an intrinsic plasma membrane protein that mediates the active transport of iodide in the thyroid gland and a number of extrathyroidal tissues, in particular lactating mammary gland. Because of its crucial role in the ability of thyroid follicular cells to trap iodide, cloning of NIS opened an exciting and extensive new field of thyroid-related research. Cloning and molecular...
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