Hormones
New findings from XenoPort in the area of hormones described
Published in Healthcare Finance, Tax and Law Weekly, December 17th, 2008
Investigators publish new data in the report 'Expression of the thyroid hormone transporters monocarboxylate transporter-8 (SLC16A2) and organic ion transporter-14 (SLCO1C1) at the blood-brain barrier.' "Thyroid hormones require transport across cell membranes to carry out their biological functions. The importance of transport for thyroid hormone signaling was highlighted by the discovery that inactivating mutations in the human monocarboxylate transporter-8 (MCT8) (SLC16A2) cause severe psychomotor retardation due to thyroid hormone deficiency in the central nervous system," scientists writing in the journal Endocrinology report.
"It has been reported that Mct8...
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