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Macchia PE, Takeuchi Y, Kawai T, et al. Increased sensitivity to thyroid hormone in mice with complete deficiency of thyroid hormone receptor alpha. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001;98(1):349-54doi: 10.1073/pnas.011306998.
Macchia, P. E., Takeuchi, Y., Kawai, T., Cua, K., Gauthier, K., Chassande, O., Seo, H., Hayashi, Y., Samarut, J., Murata, Y., Weiss, R. E., & Refetoff, S. (2001). Increased sensitivity to thyroid hormone in mice with complete deficiency of thyroid hormone receptor alpha. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 98(1), 349-54. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.011306998
Macchia, P E, et al. "Increased sensitivity to thyroid hormone in mice with complete deficiency of thyroid hormone receptor alpha." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America vol. 98,1 (2001): 349-54. doi: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.011306998
Macchia PE, Takeuchi Y, Kawai T, Cua K, Gauthier K, Chassande O, Seo H, Hayashi Y, Samarut J, Murata Y, Weiss RE, Refetoff S. Increased sensitivity to thyroid hormone in mice with complete deficiency of thyroid hormone receptor alpha. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Jan 02;98(1):349-54. doi: 10.1073/pnas.011306998. PMID: 11120878; PMCID: PMC14593.
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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2001 Jan 02;98(1):349-54. doi: 10.1073/pnas.011306998.

Increased sensitivity to thyroid hormone in mice with complete deficiency of thyroid hormone receptor alpha.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

P E Macchia, Y Takeuchi, T Kawai, K Cua, K Gauthier, O Chassande, H Seo, Y Hayashi, J Samarut, Y Murata, R E Weiss, S Refetoff

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  1. Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, MC 3090, 5841 South Maryland Avenue, Chicago, IL 60637, USA.

PMID: 11120878 PMCID: PMC14593 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.011306998

Abstract

Only three of the four thyroid hormone receptor (TR) isoforms, alpha1, beta1, and beta2, bind thyroid hormone (TH) and are considered to be true TRs. TRalpha2 binds to TH response elements on DNA, but its role in vivo is still unknown. We produced mice completely deficient in TRalpha (TRalpha(o/o)) that maintain normal serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) concentration despite low serum thyroxine (T(4)), suggesting increased sensitivity to TH. We therefore examined the effects of TH (L-3,3',5-triiodothyronine, L-T3) given to TH-deprived and to intact TRalpha(o/o) mice. Controls were wild-type (WT) mice of the same strain and mice resistant to TH due to deficiency in TRbeta (TRbeta(-/-)). In liver, T3 produced significantly greater responses in TRalpha(o/o) and smaller responses in TRbeta(-/-) as compared with WT mice. In contrast, cardiac responses to L-T3 were absent or reduced in TRalpha(o/o), whereas they were similar in WT and TRbeta(-/-) mice, supporting the notion that TRalpha1 is the dominant TH-dependent TR isoform in heart. 5-Triiodothyronine (L-T3) given to intact mice produced a greater suppression of serum T(4) in TRalpha(o/o) than it did in WT mice and reduced by a greater amount the TSH response to TSH-releasing hormone. This is an in vivo demonstration that a TR deficiency can enhance sensitivity to TH. This effect is likely due to the abrogation of the constitutive "silencing" effect of TRalpha2 in tissues expressing the TRbeta isoforms.

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