Thyroid Hormone Circulation and Processing

In this video, we talk about how thyroid hormone circulates in the blood, and we also explain how thyroid hormone is processed by peripheral tissues. DISCLAIMER: These videos are NOT meant to replace your lecture attendance, taking lecture notes, and reading the assigned readings in your textbook. These videos are only intended to aid you in understanding the material. Since our understanding of physiology is constantly updating, please use your professor's lectures and/or your textbook as your primary sources of information since these are more likely to be up to date. Thank you! Sources Used: Textbook: Boron and Boulpaep "Medical Physiology", 3rd Edtion, "Chapter 49: The Thyroid Gland," Section Titles: "Follicular Cells take up iodinated thyroglobulin, hydrolyze it, and release T4 and T3 into the blood for binding to plasma proteins", "Peripheral Tissues Deiodinate T4 to produce T3", Chapter Author: Eugene J. Barrett, pgs. 1007-1010. Class Lecture: Dr. Andrea Romani, Case Western Reserve University, "Chapter 49: The Thyroid Gland", Spring 2021. #biology #physiology #endocrine #endocrinesystem