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Thyroid hormone cell membrane transport defect.
Endocrine development - 1 Jan 2014
Ramos Helton Estrela
Abstract excerpt
In the last few years, many studies have pinpointed the crucial role of thyroid hormone (TH) transporters for TH action in human target cells. The importance was better documented by the phenotype observed in patients harboring mutations of the monocarboxylate transporter 8 (MCT8) gene immediately linked to Allan-Herndon-Dudley syndrome, in which severe neurological findings are associated with abnormal TH...
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