Thyroid hormone and the developing hypothalamus

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 9, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages 1-9

  Alkemade, Anneke ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain development; Deiodinase; Hypothalamus; Paraventricular nucleus; Thyroid hormone

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; CARRIER PROTEINS AND BINDING PROTEINS; LIOTHYRONINE; LIVER X RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER 10; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER 8; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER F; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTING POLYPEPTIDE; PROTIRELIN; SELENOCYSTEINE; SELENOCYSTEINE BINDING PROTEIN2; THYROID HORMONE; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR; THYROID HORMONE RECEPTOR BETA; THYROTROPIN; THYROXINE; THYROXINE DEIODINASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IODINE DEFICIENCY; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; ORGANUM VASCULOSUM OF THE LAMINA TERMINALIS; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; TUBERAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 84923276193     PISSN: 16625129     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2015.00015     Document Type: Review

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