Resistance to thyroid hormone.

doi:10.1159/000191312

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Resistance to thyroid hormone.

Hormone research - 1 Jan 1997

Chatterjee V K

Abstract excerpt

Resistance to thyroid hormone (RTH) is usually dominantly inherited and is characterized by elevated free thyroid hormones in the serum and failure to suppress pituitary thyroid stimulating hormone (TSH) secretion with variable refractoriness to hormone action in peripheral tissues. Two major for...

Topics

Adult
Genes, Dominant
Humans
Mutation
Nuclear Family
Pituitary Gland
Receptors, Thyroid Hormone
Sex Hormone-Binding Globulin
Thyroid Hormone Resistance Syndrome
Thyroid Hormones
Thyrotoxicosis
Thyrotropin

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