The Claim
The absence of thyroid hormone receptor proteins in TSH-secreting pituitary adenomas results in the failure of thyroid hormone to suppress TSH production, leading to hyperthyroxinemia with inappropriately high TSH levels.
What the research says
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In certain pituitary tumors that produce too much TSH, the absence of thyroid hormone receptors prevents thyroid hormone from turning off TSH production, resulting in high levels of both thyroid hormone and TSH.
See the scientific wording
The absence of thyroid hormone receptor proteins in TSH-secreting pituitary adenomas may explain the failure of thyroid hormone to suppress TSH production, leading to hyperthyroxinemia with inappropriately high TSH levels.
Thyroid hormone cannot turn off TSH production because the receptors that detect it are missing in the tumor cells, so the pituitary keeps making TSH even when thyroid hormone levels are already too high, causing the thyroid to overproduce hormones.
What the research says
1 studyIn some pituitary tumors, the signal that tells the body to stop making TSH doesn’t work because the thyroid hormone can’t find its receptors — like a key that fits the lock but the lock is broken. So TSH and thyroid hormone both stay high, even when they shouldn’t.
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