The Changing Role of Maternal Thyroid Hormone in Fetal Brain Development

Seminars in Perinatology

Volumn 32, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 380-386

  de Escobar, Gabriella Morreale ^a   Ares, Susana ^b   Berbel, Pere ^c   Obregón, María Jesus ^a   del Rey, Francisco Escobar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

^b HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA PAZ   (Spain)

^c MIGUEL HERNÁNDEZ UNIVERSITY   (Spain)

Author keywords

cerebral cortex; human chorionic gonadotropin; hypothyroxinemia; iodine intake; maternal thyroxine; prematurity

Indexed keywords

CHORIONIC GONADOTROPIN; LIOTHYRONINE; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DIETARY INTAKE; FETUS CIRCULATION; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; GESTATIONAL AGE; HUMAN; MATERNAL CARE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PREMATURITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HORMONE RELEASE;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; FETAL DEVELOPMENT; FETUS; HUMANS; INFANT, NEWBORN; INFANT, PREMATURE; IODINE; PREGNANCY; RATS; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 55449135208     PISSN: 01460005     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2008.09.002     Document Type: Review

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