Studies of estradiol and tamoxifen actions to modulate the actions of thyroid hormone (triiodothyronine, T3) in the rat have shown that a subset of estrogen responses require T3 for expression. Also, tamoxifen acts as a partial agonist in estrogen responses that are T3 independent, but acts as a full estrogen agonist in T3-dependent responses. This study examined whether the differing behavior ...

A radioimmunoassay procedure to measure triiodothyronine (T3) in unextracted urine is described. One hundred microliter of T3 standards or samples were incubated with 100 microliter of T3 antiserum (1:40,000), 100 microliter of tracer 125I-T3 and 700 microliter of 0.05 M borate buffer, pH 8.6. Separation of free from bound antigen was achieved by dextran coated charcoal. The cross-reaction of L...

In order to determine the frequency of thyroxine (T4) toxicosis and study the possibility of usefulness for differentiation between thyrotoxic Graves' disease and destructioninduced thyrotoxicosis, the serum concentrations of T4, triiodothyronine(T3), reverse T3 (rT3), and T4-binding globulin (TBG) and the values of T3-uptake and radioactive iodine uptake (RAIU) were measured, and free, T4 inde...

The action of L-triiodothyronine (T3) on amino acid transport in the GC clonal strain of rat pituitary cells was investigated by measurement of the uptake of the nonmetabolizable amino acid, alpha-aminoisobutyric acid (AIB). The uptake of AIB by GC cells appeared to require energy and Na+ and displayed Michaelis-Menten kinetics. In comparison to cultures maintained in the absence of T3, T3 addi...

We developed a novel noncompetitive immunoassay format for monoepitopic analytes and describe here a model assay for triiodothyronine (T3), performed on Ciba Corning's ACS:180 analyzer. Acridinium ester (AE)-labeled bivalent anti-T3 was incubated with the sample, producing AE-anti-T3/T3 complexes and unreacted AE-anti-T3. Controlled-pore glass particles (CPG) with immobilized diiodothyronine (T...

INTRODUCTION. It has been shown that inflammation affects thyroid function. In patients with end-stage renal disease, low plasma triiodothyronine (T3) may be an unsuspected expression of the inflammatory state of these patients. This study evaluated the correlation between T3 and high-sensitivity C-reactive protein (HSCRP) levels in patients on peritoneal dialysis (PD) and hemodialysis. MATERIA...

E. coli B cells infected with T3 phage contain a modified host RNA polymerase in addition to the normal RNA polymerase found in uninfected cells. The modified RNA polymerase behaves differently in its elution properties from the normal enzyme on DEAE-cellulose, phosphocellulose, and DNA-cellulose column chromatography. The modified enzyme also differs from the normal polymerase in some of its e...

In euthyroid sick syndrome [non-thyroidal illness (NTI)], a number of investigators have described TSH and serum thyroid hormone abnormalities, low T3, low T3 and T4, increased T4, low TSH, etc. Those cases of NTI where there is only T3 decrease [and normal serum T4, free T4 (FT4), and TSH levels] are specifically referred to as low T3 syndrome. However, the information in regard to low T3 synd...