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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 > Thyrotropin, beta Subunit
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Thyrotropin, beta Subunit  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Entry terms

  • Thyroid Stimulating Hormone, beta Subunit
  • Thyrotropin beta
  • Thyrotropin-beta
  • Thyrotropin, beta Chain
  • Thyrotropin, beta Polypeptide Chain
  • TSH beta
  • TSH-beta
  • TSH, beta Chain
  • TSH, beta Subunit
  • TSHB Gene Product

Scope note

  • The beta subunit of thyroid stimulating hormone, thyrotropin. It is a 112-amino acid glycopolypeptide of about 16 kD. Full biological activity of TSH requires the non-covalently bound heterodimers of an alpha and a beta subunit.

History note

  • 2003; use THYROTROPIN, BETA SUBUNIT (NM) 1983-2002

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D037322

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