Low T3 Syndrome:

Terms Related to Low T3 Syndrome

• Thyroid-Stimulating Hormone

  A peptide hormone secreted by the anterior pituitary. It promotes the growth of the thyroid gland and stimulates the synthesis of thyroid hormones and the ...

• Hypothyroidism

  The clinical syndrome that results from decreased secretion of thyroid hormone from the thyroid gland. It leads to a slowing of metabolic processes and in ...

• alpha Subunit Thyroid Stimulating Hormone

  A non-covalently bound subunit of the glycoprotein hormones TSH; FOLLICLE STIMULATING HORMONE; LH; and HCG which originates in the anterior pituitary gland and placenta. This ...

• Thyroid-Associated Ophthalmopathy

  Hyperthyroidism associated with a diffuse hyperplastic goiter resulting from production of an antibody directed against the thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) receptor, which acts as an agonist ...

• Inappropriate Thyroid Stimulating Hormone Secretion

  Inappropriate secretion of anterior pituitary gland hormones. The most common hormones involved in over-secretion are SOMATOTROPIN (which may cause ACROMEGALY) and PROLACTIN (which results in ...