Molecular basis of thyroid hormone-dependent brain development

Endocrine Reviews

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 462-475

  Oppenheimer, Jack H ^a,b   Schwartz, Harold L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR;

BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; GROWTH REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BASE SEQUENCE; BRAIN; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GUANINE NUCLEOTIDE EXCHANGE FACTORS; HUMANS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PREGNANCY; THYROID HORMONES; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 0030836744     PISSN: 0163769X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/er.18.4.462     Document Type: Review

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