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Thyroid hormone receptors in health and disease.
Minerva endocrinologica - 1 Dec 2012
Boelen A, Kwakkel J, Fliers E
Abstract excerpt
Thyroid hormones (TH) play a key role in energy homeostasis throughout life. Thyroid hormone production and secretion by the thyroid gland is regulated via the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid (HPT)-axis. Thyroid hormone has to be transported into the cell, where it can bind to the thyroid hormone receptor (TR) in the nucleus to exert its effect on cellular gene-transcription. Mutations in both the THRA and THRB...
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