Thyroid Health Disease Flashcards
T4 and T3 made where in thyroid gland?
colloid
What else does thyroid produce besides Thyroxine?
Calcitonin
what do C-cells make?
calcitonin
what transports the iodine through the cell?
pendrin transporter
How much of T3 derived from T4
80%
what can cause increase in TRH in infants?
cold
Tyrosine is a?
amine
what kind of effect those T3 have?
sympathomimetic
Thyroid essential when?
child growth and development
Primary thyroid hypothyroidism levels? Goiter?
decrease T3, T4
increased TSH
Goiter
dietary iodine hypothyroidism levels? goiter?
decrease T3,T4
increase TSH
Goiter
hypothalamic/anterior pituitary failure/tumor you get goiter?
No goiter
How would baby’s thyroid be destroyed by mother?
antithyroid antibodies crossing placenta
what do you get mucopolysaccharides under skin called?
puffy appearance of myxedema
TSH levels in Graves’ disease?
low because of increase T3 T4 negative feeback