Existence of ectopic thyroid glands at two different locations is very rare. Only 27 cases of
such dual ectopia have been reported in the English literature. Huang et al30 described the …

Ectopic thyroid tissue remains a rare developmental abnormality involving defective or
aberrant embryogenesis of the thyroid gland during its passage from the floor of the primitive …

Usual sleep duration is a heritable trait correlated with psychiatric morbidity, cardiometabolic
disease and mortality, although little is known about the genetic variants influencing this trait …

Congenital hypothyroidism (CH) is a neonatal endocrine disorder that might occur as itself
or be associated to congenital extra‐thyroidal defects. About 85% of affected subjects …

In vertebrates the portion of the thyroid gland synthesizing the thyroid hormones develops
from a small group of endodermal cells in the foregut. The nature of the signals that lead to …

TTF-1 and napsin A are useful biomarkers for differentiating primary lung adenocarcinoma
from metastatic tumors. Studies have shown, however, that TTF-1 and napsin A also can be …

Due to the cold winter, people living in the northwest region of China often eat red or yellow
edible herbs to help keep their bodies warm and improve their immunity. Examples of red …

Thyroid dysgenesis is the most common cause of congenital hypothyroidism that affects 1 in
3000 newborns. Although a number of pathogenetic mutations in thyroid developmental …

Undifferentiated thyroid carcinoma is one of the most aggressive human cancers with
frequent RAS mutations. How mutations of the RAS gene contribute to undifferentiated …

Abstract TTF-1 and PAX-8 are responsible for thyroid organogenesis and for maintenance of
differentiation in thyrocytes. Thus, we hypothesized that the induction of these two …