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Enhanced functional activity in thyroid adenomas in vitro.
Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes : official journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association - 1 Jan 1996
Poertl S, Kirner J, Mann K, Hoermann R
Abstract excerpt
The majority of thyroid adenomas have been shown to be of clonal origin. In a portion of them, somatic or germline point mutations leading to altered TSH receptor or Gs alpha-proteins have been found. The constitutive activation of these proteins consecutively stimulate cAMP-levels. Expression of the TSH receptor mutants in mammalian cells leads to increased cAMP-production compared to cells transfected with the...
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