Article
GH and TSH deficiency.
Experimental and clinical endocrinology & diabetes : official journal, German Society of Endocrinology [and] German Diabetes Association - 1 Jan 1997
Pfäffle R W, Martinez R, Kim C, Frisch H, Lebl J, Otten B, Heimann G
Abstract excerpt
Hypothyroidism is a recognised complication of GH therapy in GH deficient children. The mechanisms involved include direct effects on thyroid function but also result from the close interrelationship of pituitary cell-lines that differentiate during embryonic development of the anterior pituitary...
Topics
- DNA-Binding Proteins
- Human Growth Hormone
- Humans
- Hypopituitarism
- Hypothyroidism
- Mutation
- Prolactin
- Thyrotropin
- Thyroxine
- Transcription Factor Pit-1
- Transcription Factors
