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GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 203, Issue -, Pages 69-85Publisher
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.03.015
Keywords
Estrogen; Androgen; Brain; Gonad; Comparative; Thyroid hormone
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
- postdoctoral NSERC strategic grants contract
- University of Ottawa Research Chair in Neuroendocrinology
- Environment Canada
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Thyroid hormones (THs) are well-known regulators of development and metabolism in vertebrates. There is increasing evidence that THs are also involved in gonadal differentiation and reproductive function. Changes in TH status affect sex ratios in developing fish and frogs and reproduction (e.g., fertility), hormone levels, and gonad morphology in adults of species of different vertebrates. In this review, we have summarized and compared the evidence for cross-talk between the steroid hormone and thyroid axes and present a comparative model. We gave special attention to TH regulation of sex steroid synthesis and action in both the brain and gonad, since these are important for gonad development and brain sexual differentiation and have been studied in many species. We also reviewed research showing that there is a TH system, including receptors and enzymes, in the brains and gonads in developing and adult vertebrates. Our analysis shows that THs influences sex steroid hormone synthesis in vertebrates, ranging from fish to pigs. This concept of crosstalk and conserved hormone interaction has implications for our understanding of the role of THs in reproduction, and how these processes may be dysregulated by environmental endocrine disruptors. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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