Minireview: Thyroid hormone transporters: The knowns and the unknowns

Molecular Endocrinology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-14

  Visser, W Edward ^a   Friesema, Edith C H ^a   Visser, Theo J ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,5 DIIODOTHYROPROPIONIC ACID; BUMETANIDE; CARRIER PROTEIN; IODOTHYRONINE; LEVOTHYROXINE; LIOTHYRONINE; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER 10; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER 8; NATEGLINIDE; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER POLYPEPTIDE 1C1; OUABAIN; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE TRANSPORTER; THYROMIMETIC AGENT; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

BINDING AFFINITY; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONGENITAL HYPOTHYROIDISM; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MEGADOSE; DRUG PROTEIN BINDING; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC COUNSELING; HORMONAL THERAPY; HUMAN; HYPERTHYROIDISM; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INTRACELLULAR TRANSPORT; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; LIVER TOXICITY; LOSS OF FUNCTION MUTATION; LOW DRUG DOSE; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; THYROID HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; THYROID HORMONE METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; HUMANS; MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID TRANSPORTERS; MUTATION; THYROID HORMONES;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 78650916392     PISSN: 08888809     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/me.2010-0095     Document Type: Review

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