Recent advances in thyroid research: selective thyroid hormone receptor modulators (STRMs).
Compounds have been designed and tested exhibiting some of the beneficial effects of thyroid hormones, such as lowering of cholesterol and weight reduction, without the adverse thyroid hormone action on heart rate. Progress has also been made in attempting to treat hyperthyroidism by synthesizing antagonists that block thyroid hormone action, at the level of the thyroid hormone receptor or of the thyrotropin receptor. Clinical trials are still awaited, however, to verify whether these potentially promising agents will indeed prove to be of clinical therapeutic value.
Kraiem
Zaki
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Faculty of Medicine, Technion, Haifa, Israel. zkraiem@clalit.org.il
D000818:Animals; D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D006339:Heart Rate / Q000187:drug effects; D006801:Humans; D006937:Hypercholesterolemia / Q000097:blood / Q000188:drug therapy; D011988:Receptors, Thyroid Hormone / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors*; D013963:Thyroid Hormones / Q000494:pharmacology*
D011988:Receptors, Thyroid Hormone; D013963:Thyroid Hormones