Impact of flavonoids on thyroid function

Food and Chemical Toxicology

Volumn 49, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2495-2502

  de Souza dos Santos, Maria Carolina ^a   Gonçalves, Carlos Frederico Lima ^a   Vaisman, Mário ^a   Ferreira, Andrea Claudia Freitas ^a   de Carvalho, Denise Pires ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Deiodinase; Flavonoids; Sodium iodide symporter; Thyroid; Thyroperoxidase

Indexed keywords

FLAVONOID; IODINE; IODOTYROSINE; KALANCHOE BRASILIENSIS EXTRACT; LIOTHYRONINE; MYRCIA UNIFLORA EXTRACT; PLANT EXTRACT; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THIAMAZOLE; THYROGLOBULIN; THYROID PEROXIDASE; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANTIINFLAMMATORY ACTIVITY; ANTINEOPLASTIC ACTIVITY; ANTIOXIDANT ACTIVITY; AUTOIMMUNE THYROIDITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; ENDEMIC GOITER; FOOD SAFETY; HEALTH HAZARD; HUMAN; IODINATION; IODINE DEFICIENCY; KALANCHOE BRASILIENSIS; MEDICINAL PLANT; MYRCIA UNIFLORA; NONHUMAN; PEARL MILLET; PEPTIC ULCER; REVIEW; SOYBEAN MILK; THYROID CANCER; THYROID FUNCTION; THYROID HORMONE METABOLISM; THYROID HORMONE RELEASE; THYROID HORMONE SYNTHESIS; TISSUE INJURY;

ANIMALS; FLAVONOIDS; HUMANS; IODIDE PEROXIDASE; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 80051893211     PISSN: 02786915     EISSN: 18736351     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.fct.2011.06.074     Document Type: Review

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