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Formation, Storage, and Release of Thyroid Hormones
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Thyroid hormone
Diagrammatic representation of thyroid hormone synthesis in a thyroid follicle.
This is a diagrammatic representation of thyroid hormone synthesis in a thyroid follicle. Sodium is co-transported with iodide from the basolateral side of the membrane into the cell, and then concentrated in the thyroid follicles to about thirty times its concentration in the blood.
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