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What is the largest endocrine gland?

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Thyroid

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What is the main function of the thyroid?

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Regulate basal metabolic rate

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What dietary substance does the thyroid need to function?

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Iodine

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What is dietary iodine (I2) absorbed as?

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Iodide

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The thyroid is located below which structure? Which cartilage is it located at either side of?

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Below the larynx
Either side of thyroid cartilage (cricoid cartilage)

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Which two muscles is the thyroid covered by?

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Strap muscles from the neck and overlapped by sternocleidomastoid

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What fascia is the thyroid enclosed by?

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Pretracheal fascia - attaches thyroid to the larynx

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Where does the thyroid gland develop from?

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Floor of the pharynx, near the root of the tongue.
It descends into he neck as a down growth.

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What colloid substance are thyroid follicles rich in?

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Thyroglobulin

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What type of protein is thyroglobulin?

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Large tyrosine rich dimeric glycoprotein

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What hormones does the thyroid gland secrete?

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T4 - Thyroxine (majority)
T2 - Triiodothyronine

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T4 + T3 originate from which hormone?

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Tyrosine
They have added iodine (T4 = 4, T3 = 3)

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Which thyroid hormone has a longer half life?

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T4

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What do thyroid C cells produce and what is it involved in?

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Calcitonin
Involved in calcium homeostasis

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Which hormone is a precursor of T3?

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T4.
Can be converted to active T3 via removal of one iodine.

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T4 is converted to T3 primarily in which extra-thyroidal tissues?

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Liver and Kidneys

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How is iodine removed from T4 to convert this into T3?

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Via Iodothyronine deiodinase

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What are the three types of deiodinases?

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D1 - liver, kidney, thyroid
D2 - Muscle, brain, pituitary, skin and placenta
D3

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Which deiodinase creates active T3 and how?

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D1 + D2
Via outer ring deiodination

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Which deiodinase creates inactive T3 and how?

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D3
Via inner ring deiodination

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How is thyroglobulin synthesised?

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Thyroglobulin and thyroid peroxidase are synthesised in the RER –> Then transported to Golgi –> Packaged in vacuoles –> Thyroglobulin exocytosis into colloid space through microvilli. Thyroid peroxidase sits on apical membrane.
Iodide enters cell –> transported to apical border via Pendrin where there are microvilli –> Iodide converted to iodine + iodine binds to thyroglobulin, both via thyroid peroxidase.
This creates Iodinated thyroglobulin that is stored in colloid.

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How is thyroglobulin broken down?

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Colloid droplets from colloid space go though endocytosis into apical cell membrane.
Lysosome fuses with droplet + enzyme breaks thyroglobulin down into T3 + T4

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What type of cells are thyroid cells?

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Cuboidal epithelial cells

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Which protein assists Iodide across the cell into the colloid space?
Pendrin
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How does iodide enter the basolateral membrane of the thyroid cell?
Via Sodium/Iodide symporter
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Thyroid peroxidase binds tyrosine and iodine to create which molecules in the colloid space?
X1 Iodine + Tyrosine = MIT (Monoiodotyrosine) X2 Iodine + Tyrosine = DIT (Diiodotyrosine)
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MIT + DIT are coupled together via thyroxine peroxidase and transported back into the apical membrane of the cell via which process?
Endocytosis
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In the Thyroid follicular cell, MIT + DIT, and DIT + DIT are bonded to create which hormones?
DIT + DIT = T4 MIT + DIT = T3
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The Sodium/Iodide Symporter is reliant on the sodium gradient created by which pump?
Na+/K+ ATPase
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The Sodium/Iodide Symporter transports 1 iodide ion against how many sodium ions?
2
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What regulates thyroid hormone secretion?
Hypothalamus Pituitary Thyroid Axis
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How does the HPT Axis work?
Hypothalamus releases Thyrotropin Releasing Hormone (TRH) --> Stimulates anterior pituitary to release Thyroid Stimulating Hormone (TSH) --> Production of T3 + T4 in thyroid --> Negative feedback loop to hypothalamus and anterior pituitary to inhibit TRH + TSH secretion.
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Thyrotropin releasing hormone (TRH) is transported to the pituitary via which system?
Hypothalamic - Hypophyseal portal system
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Which cells in the anterior pituitary gland produces TSH?
Thyrotrope cells
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TSH receptor binding activities which enzymes?
AC --> cAMP PLC
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How does cold exposure affect thyroid hormone stimulation?
Hypothalamus mechanism that controls body temperature gets excited --> increases production and secretion of TRH --> reduces metabolic rate
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How does fasting affect thyroid hormone stimulation?
Fasting reduces leptin levels --> reduces expression/secretion of TRH, TSH + thyroid hormones --> reduces metabolic rate
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How does emotion affect thyroid hormone stimulation?
Emotional reactions stimulate the SS --> decreased TSH secretion.
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What are T4 + T3 bound to in the blood?
Plasma proteins. E.g. Thyroxine binding globulin (TBG), Thyroxine binding prealbumin or transthyretin (TTR) + Albumin (All liver synthesised)
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How quickly are T4 + T3 released into tissues from blood?
Half of blood T4 released every 6 days Half of blood T3 released every day as there is lower affinity to plasma proteins.
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How to T3 + T3 enter cells?
via active membrane transport. MCT8 transporter protein.
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Which hormone binds to Thyroid hormone receptors?
T3 - high affinity binding.
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Thyroid hormone receptors need to bind to which other receptors to form heterodimers?
Retinoid X Receptors (RXR)
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Once T3 binds to Thyroid Hormone Receptors + Thyroid Hormone Receptors bind to Retinoid X Receptors, what does this allow Thyroid Hormone Receptors to bind to?
Thyroid Hormone Response elements/Hormone response elements (HRE). These are short DNA sequences that regulate gene expression.
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What cellular mechanisms are affected in response to thyroid hormone activity?
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Which body functions are affected in response to thyroid hormone activity?

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