Erratum: Thyroid hormone transporters-functions and clinical implications (Nature Reviews Endocrinology (2015) 11 (406-417)) DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2015.66);Thyroid hormone transporters-functions and clinical implications

Nature Reviews Endocrinology

Volumn 11, Issue 7, 2015, Pages 406-417

  Bernal, Juan ^a   Guadaño Ferraz, Ana ^a   Morte, Beatriz ^b  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

^b CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE ENFERMEDADES RARAS CIBERER   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARRIER PROTEINS AND BINDING PROTEINS; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER 8; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTER; PROTIRELIN; SODIUM BILE ACID COTRANSPORTER; THYROID HORMONE; THYROTROPIN; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER; CARRIER PROTEIN; LIOTHYRONINE; MONOCARBOXYLATE TRANSPORTER; OATP2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORTER; SLC16A2 PROTEIN, HUMAN; SLC16A2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; SLCO1C1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; THYROXINE;

BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN TISSUE; CHOROID PLEXUS; GENE MUTATION; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HORMONE TRANSPORT; HUMAN; HYPOTHYROIDISM; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEFICIENCY; REVIEW; THYROID GLAND; ZEBRA FISH; ANIMAL; BRAIN; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; MUSCLE ATROPHY; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; X LINKED MENTAL RETARDATION;

ANIMALS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN; CHOROID PLEXUS; HUMANS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MENTAL RETARDATION, X-LINKED; MICE; MONOCARBOXYLIC ACID TRANSPORTERS; MUSCLE HYPOTONIA; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; ORGANIC ANION TRANSPORTERS; ORGANIC CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; THYROID HORMONES; THYROTROPIN; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; THYROXINE; TRIIODOTHYRONINE;

EID: 84931569375     PISSN: 17595029     EISSN: 17595037     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrendo.2015.113     Document Type: Erratum

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