Using two treatments together—one for the TSH receptor and one for the IGF-1 receptor—might work better and cause fewer side effects for people with thyroid eye disease than using just one of them alone.

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Targeting TSH and IGF-1 Receptors to Treat Thyroid Eye Disease

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2020 Dec

The study doesn’t test the combination treatment directly, but it explains why hitting both targets might work better than one, based on how the disease works in the eye.

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Targeting TSH and IGF-1 Receptors to Treat Thyroid Eye Disease

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DOI: 10.1159/000511538

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