Article
Syndromes of hormone resistance in the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis.
Best practice & research. Clinical endocrinology & metabolism - 1 Dec 2006
Beck-Peccoz Paolo, Persani Luca, Calebiro Davide, Bonomi Marco, Mannavola Deborah, Campi Irene
Abstract excerpt
Forty years have elapsed since the first description of a syndrome of resistance in the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis, i.e., resistance to thyroid hormone action. In the last two decades many other types of resistance have been discovered, including resistance to the action of thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH), of thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), and of thyroid hormones (THs); the latter can be due not...
Topics
- Amino Acid Sequence
- Child
- Female
- Humans
- Hypothalamo-Hypophyseal System
- Hypothyroidism
- Male
- Monocarboxylic Acid Transporters
- Mutation
- RNA-Binding Proteins
- Receptors, Thyrotropin