Thyroid Flashcards
Where are thyroid hormone (T3) receptors located?
Nucleus
What is the function of calcitonin? Where is it produced
- Inhibits bone resorption
- Important clinical tumor marker for medullary thyroid cancer
- Parafollicular C cells of thyroid gland
Where can ectopic thyroid tissue be found?
Anywhere along thyroglossal duct, tongue base (lingual), mediastinum
What is the recommended daily intake for iodine? What happens if you don’t have enough?
- Adults: 150 micrograms
- Pregnant women: 200 micrograms
- Children: 90 micrograms
- <100: iodine deficiency
- <50: will result in goiter and hypothyroidism
List the steps to thyroid hormone synthesis
- Active transport of iodide across basement membrane of thyroid cell via NaI sypmporter
- Oxidation of iodide and iodination of tyrosyl residues in TG (organification)
- Linking pairs of iodotyrosine molecules within TG to form iodothyronines T3 and T4 (coupling)
- Pinocytosis and then proteolysis of TG with release of free T3/T4 into circulation
- Deiodination of iodotyrosines within thyroid cell, with conservation of the iodide
- Intrathyroidal 5’ deiodination of T4 to T3
Draw thyroid hormone production
How does the Na-I symporter derive its energy?
From the Na-K ATPase creating the ion gradient
What other tissues express NIS?
Salivary, gastric, breast (may light up on radioiodine scans or cause sialadenitis and gastritis with radioactive iodine treatment)
Mutations in pendrin (PDS or SLC26A4 gene) cause ___
Congetnial hypothyroidism (dyshormonogenesis) and hearing loss.
How do PTU and methimazole work?
- How do PTU and methimazole work?
- PTU also decreases peripheral conversion of T4 to T3
What conditions cause increased thyroglobulin?
- Thyroiditis
- Nodular goiter
- Graves
- Papillary and follicular thyroid cancer (useful tumor marker)
How does excess iodide inhibit thyroid hormone production?
- Inhibits iodide trapping
- Inhibits TG iodination (Wolff-Chaikoff effect)
- Inhibits thyroid hormone release from glands
- Note: these actions are transient and the normal thyroid gland escapes after 10-14 days. Excess iodine can be used to prevent thyroid gland exposure to radiation injury (ex. after nuclear power accidents)
What is the Jod-Basedow effect?
Iodine load inducing hyperthyroidism in some patients with multinodular goiter, latent Graves disease and rarely in those with normal thyroid glands
What proteins carry thyroid hormone around in circulation?
- Thyroid binding globulin (TBG)
- Transthyretic (previously thyroxine-binding prealbumin)
- Albumin
Name 3 conditions that can increase thyroxine binding globulin
- Estrogen (pregnancy, estrogen therapy)
- Hepatitis
- Drugs: tamoxifen, 5-fluorouracil, methadone, heroin