Document Type
Article
Publication Date
9-1997
Publication Title
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Department
Geisel School of Medicine
Abstract
Thyroid hormone plays an essential role in mammalian brain maturation and function, in large part by regulating the expression of specific neuronal genes. In this tissue, the type 2 deiodinase (D2) appears to be essential for providing adequate levels of the active thyroid hormone 3,5,3′-triiodothyronine (T3) during the developmental period. We have studied the regional and cellular localization of D2 mRNA in the brain of 15-day-old neonatal rats. D2 is expressed in the cerebral cortex, olfactory bulb, hippocampus, caudate, thalamus, hypothalamus, and cerebellum and was absent from the white matter. At the cellular level, D2 is expressed predominantly, if not exclusively, in astrocytes and in the tanycytes lining the third ventricle and present in the median eminence. These results suggest a close metabolic coupling between subsets of glial cells and neurons, whereby thyroxine is taken up from the blood and/or cerebrospinal fluid by astrocytes and tanycytes, is deiodinated to T3, and then is released for utilization by neurons.
DOI
10.1073/pnas.94.19.10391
Original Citation
Guadaño-Ferraz A, Obregón MJ, St Germain DL, Bernal J. The type 2 iodothyronine deiodinase is expressed primarily in glial cells in the neonatal rat brain. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1997;94(19):10391-10396. doi:10.1073/pnas.94.19.10391
Dartmouth Digital Commons Citation
Guadaño-Ferraz, Ana; Maria Jesus Obregón; St. Germain, Donald L.; and Bernal, Juan, "The Type 2 Iodothyronine Deiodinase is Expressed Primarily in Glial Cells in the Neonatal Rat Brain" (1997). Dartmouth Scholarship. 1468.
https://digitalcommons.dartmouth.edu/facoa/1468