Journal
MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 458, Issue C, Pages 22-28Publisher
ELSEVIER IRELAND LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.mce.2017.01.041
Keywords
Thyroid hormone; Placenta; Brain; Blood-brain barrier; Blood-cerebrospinal fluid barrier
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- Science Education and Research Trust Fund
- Pathology Queensland
- Queensland Health
- Royal Brisbane and Womens Hospital Research Foundation
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Thyroid hormone is essential for normal human fetal growth and brain development. As the fetal thyroid does not secrete thyroid hormones until about 18 weeks gestation, early fetal brain development depends on passage of maternal hormone across the placenta into the fetal circulation. To reach the fetal brain, maternally derived and endogenously produced thyroid hormone has to cross the blood-brain and blood-cerebrospinal fluid barriers. In this review we will discuss the complex biological barriers (involving membrane transporters, enzymes and distributor proteins) that must be overcome to ensure that the developing human brain has adequate exposure to thyroid hormone. Crown Copyright (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
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