Sex steroids and the thyroid

Best Practice and Research: Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 23, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 769-780

  Tahboub, Rundsarah ^a   Arafah, Baha M ^a  

^a CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

anabolic steroids; androgen; free thyroxine; L thyroxine; oestrogen; pregnancy; progesterone; selective oestrogen receptor modifier; testosterone; thyroid function; thyrotropin; thyroxine binding globulin

Indexed keywords

ANDROGEN; CONJUGATED ESTROGEN; DANAZOL; DIAMORPHINE; DROLOXIFENE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN; ETHINYLESTRADIOL; FLUOROURACIL; FLUOXYMESTERONE; FUROSEMIDE; GESTAGEN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GOSERELIN; LEVOTHYROXINE; METHADONE; MITOTANE; NICOTINIC ACID; PROGESTERONE; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR; SEX HORMONE; TAMOXIFEN; TESTOSTERONE; TESTOSTERONE ESTER; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE; THIAMAZOLE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; THYROXINE BINDING GLOBULIN; UNINDEXED DRUG;

BIOCHEMISTRY; BREAST CANCER; CLINICAL TRIAL; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG METABOLISM; DRUG STRUCTURE; ENDOMETRIOSIS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EUTHYROIDISM; GRAVES DISEASE; HEREDITY; HORMONE METABOLISM; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; PREGNANCY; REVIEW; SIDE EFFECT; THYROID DISEASE; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANDROGENS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HUMANS; PREGNANCY; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATORS; THYROID DISEASES; THYROID GLAND; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; THYROXINE-BINDING GLOBULIN;

EID: 71749116837     PISSN: 1521690X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beem.2009.06.005     Document Type: Review

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