Fetal and neonatal iron deficiency exacerbates mild thyroid hormone insufficiency effects on male thyroid hormone levels and brain thyroid hormone-responsive gene expression

Endocrinology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 1157-1167

  Bastian, Thomas W ^a   Prohaska, Joseph R ^b   Georgieff, Michael K ^b   Anderson, Grant W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; LIOTHYRONINE; MESSENGER RNA; PARVALBUMIN; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; THYROID HORMONE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN MALFORMATION; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; THYROID HORMONE BRAIN LEVEL; THYROID HORMONE DEFICIENCY; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IRON; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; PARVALBUMINS; PREGNANCY; PROPYLTHIOURACIL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX FACTORS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID HORMONES;

EID: 84896886907     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 19457170     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2013-1571     Document Type: Article

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