Minireview: Thyrotropin-releasing hormone and the thyroid hormone feedback mechanism

Endocrinology

Volumn 150, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1091-1096

  Chiamolera, Maria Izabel ^a   Wondisford, Fredric E ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTIRELIN; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; THYROTROPIN; HYPOTHALAMUS RELEASING FACTOR; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; SLC16A2 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SYNTHESIS; HORMONE ACTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; POSITIVE FEEDBACK; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN PROCESSING; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; THYROID HORMONE RELEASE; THYROID HORMONE SYNTHESIS; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROTROPIN RELEASE; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ANIMAL; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGY; THYROID GLAND;

ANIMALS; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID TRANSPORTERS; NEURONS; PITUITARY HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONES; RECEPTORS, THYROID HORMONE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE;

EID: 67650233318     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-1795     Document Type: Review

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