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... > Chemical Actions and Uses > Pharmacologic Actions > Physiological Effects of Drugs > Hormones, Hormone Substitutes, and Hormone Antagonists > Hormones > Peptide Hormones > Pituitary Hormones > Pituitary Hormones, Anterior > Thyrotropin
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Thyrotropin  

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Entry terms

  • Hormone, Thyroid-Stimulating
  • Thyreotropin
  • Thyroid Stimulating Hormone
  • Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone
  • Thyrotrophin
  • TSH (Thyroid Stimulating Hormone)

Note

  • for alpha subunit, coord with GLYCOPROTEIN HORMONES, ALPHA SUBUNIT; THYROTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT is also available

Scope note

  • A glycoprotein hormone secreted by the adenohypophysis (PITUITARY GLAND, ANTERIOR). Thyrotropin stimulates THYROID GLAND by increasing the iodide transport, synthesis and release of thyroid hormones (THYROXINE and TRIIODOTHYRONINE). Thyrotropin consists of two noncovalently linked subunits, alpha and beta. Within a species, the alpha subunit is common in the pituitary glycoprotein hormones (TSH; LUTEINIZING HORMONE and FSH), but the beta subunit is unique and confers its biological specificity.

In other languages

  • tyreotropiini

    Finnish

  • kilpirauhasta stimuloiva hormoni
  • thyreotropinum
  • Thyrogen
  • TSH
  • tyreoideaa stimuloiva hormoni
  • tyroideaa stimuloiva hormoni
  • tyrotropiini
  • Tyreotropin

    Swedish

  • TSH

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D013972

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