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  • Thumbnail for Graves' disease
    affects the thyroid. It frequently results in and is the most common cause of hyperthyroidism. It also often results in an enlarged thyroid. Signs and...
    62 KB (6,436 words) - 04:43, 7 August 2024
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    underactive thyroid, low thyroid or hypothyreosis) is a disorder of the endocrine system in which the thyroid gland does not produce enough thyroid hormones...
    79 KB (8,156 words) - 02:12, 29 July 2024
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    excessive production of thyroid hormones by the thyroid gland. Thyrotoxicosis is the condition that occurs due to excessive thyroid hormone of any cause...
    65 KB (7,351 words) - 22:58, 28 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thyroid hormones
    Thyroid hormones are any hormones produced and released by the thyroid gland, namely triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4). They are tyrosine-based...
    56 KB (5,790 words) - 03:57, 29 July 2024
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    Endocrinology (redirect from Thyroid Doctor)
    affect the actions of different organ systems in the body. Examples include thyroid hormone, growth hormone, and insulin. The endocrine system involves a number...
    27 KB (3,035 words) - 20:41, 2 August 2024
  • Thyroid-stimulating hormone (also known as thyrotropin, thyrotropic hormone, or abbreviated TSH) is a pituitary hormone that stimulates the thyroid gland...
    25 KB (2,770 words) - 07:42, 19 May 2024
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    Hashimoto's thyroiditis (category Thyroid disease)
    thyroiditis and Hashimoto's disease, is an autoimmune disease in which the thyroid gland is gradually destroyed. A slightly broader term is autoimmune thyroiditis...
    72 KB (7,884 words) - 18:15, 30 May 2024
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    The thyroid, or thyroid gland, is an endocrine gland in vertebrates. In humans, it is in the neck and consists of two connected lobes. The lower two thirds...
    74 KB (8,001 words) - 18:30, 30 July 2024
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    Thyroid cancer is cancer that develops from the tissues of the thyroid gland. It is a disease in which cells grow abnormally and have the potential to...
    60 KB (5,396 words) - 20:40, 30 July 2024
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    Levothyroxine (category Hormones of the hypothalamus-pituitary-thyroid axis)
    known as L-thyroxine, is a synthetic form of the thyroid hormone thyroxine (T4). It is used to treat thyroid hormone deficiency (hypothyroidism), including...
    36 KB (3,390 words) - 12:09, 31 July 2024
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    (NKX2-1), also known as thyroid transcription factor 1 (TTF-1), is a protein which in humans is encoded by the NKX2-1 gene. Thyroid transcription factor-1...
    19 KB (2,118 words) - 19:06, 28 August 2023
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    of DNA. This nuclear protein is involved in thyroid follicular cell development and expression of thyroid-specific genes. PAX8 releases the hormones important...
    18 KB (2,329 words) - 09:20, 25 July 2024
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    Triiodothyronine (category Hormones of the thyroid gland)
    Triiodothyronine, also known as T3, is a thyroid hormone. It affects almost every physiological process in the body, including growth and development...
    26 KB (2,756 words) - 20:23, 2 August 2024
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    Thyroglobulin (category Thyroid)
    glycoprotein produced by the follicular cells of the thyroid and used entirely within the thyroid gland. Tg is secreted and accumulated at hundreds of...
    17 KB (1,983 words) - 19:38, 30 June 2024
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    Goitre (category Thyroid)
    swelling in the neck resulting from an enlarged thyroid gland. A goitre can be associated with a thyroid that is not functioning properly. Worldwide, over...
    26 KB (2,371 words) - 01:10, 9 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Thyrotropin receptor
    TSH receptor) is a receptor (and associated protein) that responds to thyroid-stimulating hormone (also known as "thyrotropin") and stimulates the production...
    11 KB (1,345 words) - 01:15, 9 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid axis
    The hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid axis (HPT axis for short, a.k.a. thyroid homeostasis or thyrotropic feedback control) is part of the neuroendocrine...
    15 KB (1,667 words) - 00:41, 9 November 2023
  • Thumbnail for Thyroid hormone receptor alpha
    Thyroid hormone receptor alpha (TR-alpha) also known as nuclear receptor subfamily 1, group A, member 1 (NR1A1), is a nuclear receptor protein that in...
    14 KB (1,730 words) - 03:58, 8 September 2023
  • Thumbnail for Parafollicular cell
    the thyroid. They are called C cells because the primary function of these cells is to secrete calcitonin. They are located adjacent to the thyroid follicles...
    9 KB (1,051 words) - 05:09, 3 February 2024
  • Thumbnail for Sodium/iodide cotransporter
    Sodium/iodide cotransporter (category Thyroid)
    follicular cells of the thyroid gland is the first step in the synthesis of thyroid hormone. Iodine uptake mediated by thyroid follicular cells from the...
    27 KB (3,133 words) - 05:26, 3 September 2023
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