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ESE Basic Endocrinology Course on Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Cancer 2016

ESE Basic Course on Endocrine and Neuroendocrine Cancer 2016

The bright and dark side of transthyretin, a thyroxine plasma transporter

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The bright and dark side of transthyretin, a thyroxine plasma transporter

Saraiva M J

Transthyretin (TTR) is a plasma and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF)-circulating protein. Besides the primordially attributed systemic role as transporter molecule of thyroxine (T4) and retinol (through the binding to retinol-binding protein (RBP)), TTR has been recognised as a protein with important functions in several aspects of the nervous system physiology. TTR has been shown to play an important role in behaviour, cognition, amidated neuropeptide processing, and nerv...

ea0040lb20 | The bright and dark side of transthyretin, a thyroxine plasma transporter | ESEBEC2016

L20 – Biography

Maria João Mascarenhas Saraiva received a BSc in Biology from the University of Porto, Portugal, in 1976, and an MSc in Biochemistry from the University of London, in 1978. Between 1980 and 1984, she did a PhD in biochemistry at the University of Porto, and qualified as Professor of Biochemistry in the University of Porto in 1991. She worked for different periods as a Visiting Scientist at the ...