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  2. Thyroid hormones - Wikipedia

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    Thyroid hormones act on nearly every cell in the body. They act to increase the basal metabolic rate, affect protein synthesis, help regulate long bone growth (synergy with growth hormone) and neural maturation, and increase the body's sensitivity to catecholamines (such as adrenaline) by permissiveness. [12]

  3. Thyroid follicular cell - Wikipedia

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    Thyroid hormone synthesis. [2]Follicular cells take up iodide and amino acids from the blood circulation on the basolateral side, synthesize thyroglobulin and thyroperoxidase from amino acids and secrete these into the thyroid follicles together with iodide.

  4. Thyroid peroxidase - Wikipedia

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    Thyroid peroxidase, also called thyroperoxidase (TPO), thyroid specific peroxidase or iodide peroxidase, is an enzyme expressed mainly in the thyroid where it is secreted into colloid. Thyroid peroxidase oxidizes iodide ions to form iodine atoms for addition onto tyrosine residues on thyroglobulin for the production of thyroxine (T 4 ) or ...

  5. Plummer effect - Wikipedia

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    Unlike the Wolff–Chaikoff effect, the Plummer effect does not prevent the thyroid from taking up radioactive iodine, e.g. in the case of nuclear emergencies.Therefore, "plummering" with high-dose iodine is only effective in a short time window after the release of radionuclides. [9]

  6. Wikipedia : Featured picture candidates/Thyroid hormone synthesis

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    Original – Synthesis of thyroid hormones Reason This illustration of thyroid hormone synthesis is used in many articles. It has a detailed caption in the first two articles listed below. The file description is detailed and lists the sources.

  7. Thyroid-stimulating hormone - Wikipedia

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    Thyroid-stimulating hormone (also known as thyrotropin, thyrotropic hormone, or abbreviated TSH) is a pituitary hormone that stimulates the thyroid gland to produce thyroxine (T 4), and then triiodothyronine (T 3) which stimulates the metabolism of almost every tissue in the body. [1]

  8. Antithyroid agent - Wikipedia

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    They inhibit release of thyroid hormones by the thyroid gland.The most studied drug in this class is lithium, which inhibits thyroid hormone secretion by inhibiting iodotyrosine coupling, thyroidal iodide uptake, and alteration in structure of thyroglobulin, [10] a protein which acts as a substrate for the synthesis of thyroid hormones and storage of inactive forms of T3, T4 and iodine within ...

  9. Diiodotyrosine - Wikipedia

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    DIT is a modulator of the enzyme thyroid peroxidase (which is involved in the production of thyroid hormones). [1] Triiodothyronine is formed, when diiodotyrosine is combined with monoiodotyrosine (in the colloid of the thyroid follicle). Two molecules of DIT combine to make the thyroid hormone thyroxine ('T4' and 'T3').