More than 12% of Americans will develop a thyroid condition at some point, with women at greater risk than men. The thyroid ...

Viking Therapeutics, Inc. ("Viking") (NASDAQ: VKTX), a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on the development of novel therapies for metabolic and endocrine disorders, today announced ...

Atherosclerosis is a major cause of mortality throughout the western world, despite the existence of drugs that lower cholesterol. The incidences of obesity and type 2 diabetes are increasing at ...

To this end, Takeuchi and his colleagues utilized RT-PCR analysis to study the expression of specific genes, such as DIO2 (type 2 deiodinase)—a thyroid hormone activator, and DIO3 (type 3 ...

Previous scientific reports have implicated the role of estrogen and thyroid hormones in the formation of feathers. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms and relationship between the two ...

Bollywood actor Arjun Kapoor opened up about his diagnosis with Hashimoto’s disease an autoimmune thyroid condition Read to ...

But it's often related to Graves' disease, an autoimmune disease that can cause abnormal levels of thyroid hormones. Researchers are still studying all the causes. Thyroid eye disease can make ...

Thyroglobulin (Tg), the prothyroid globulin, is a high molecular weight (660 kDa ... During the process of thyroid hormone synthesis and release, Tg is polymerized and degraded.