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Current standards, variations, and pitfalls for the determination of constitutive TSHR activity in vitro.
Methods in enzymology - 1 Jan 2010
Mueller Sandra, Jaeschke Holger, Paschke Ralf
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Constitutively activating mutations of the TSHR are the major cause for nonautoimmune hyperthyroidism, which is based on ligand independent, permanent receptor activation. Several reports have highlighted the difficulties to determine whether a TSHR mutation is constitutively active or not especially for borderline cases with only a slight increase of the basal cAMP activity. Current methods to precisely classify...
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