Thyroid transcription factors in development, differentiation and disease

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 29-42

  Fernández, Lara P ^a   López Márquez, Arístides ^a   Santisteban, Pilar ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 1; THYROID TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR 2; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOXE1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR HHEX; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR NKX2 1; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR PAX8; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; FOXE1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; HHEX PROTEIN, HUMAN; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEIN; NUCLEAR PROTEIN; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PAX8 PROTEIN, HUMAN; THYROID NUCLEAR FACTOR 1;

DISEASE COURSE; EPIGENETICS; GENE MUTATION; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; THYROID DYSGENESIS; THYROID GLAND; ANIMAL; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; MUTATION; THYROID TUMOR;

ANIMALS; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; FORKHEAD TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOMEODOMAIN PROTEINS; HUMANS; MUTATION; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; PAIRED BOX TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; THYROID GLAND; THYROID NEOPLASMS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS;

EID: 84927175799     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2014.186     Document Type: Review

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