Endocrine Abstracts

Corepressors and coactivators mediate thyroid hormone receptor-dependent repression and transactivation of positively-regulated target genes respectively, but their role in negative regulation is not understood.A 4 years old boy was born at 31 weeks. He was jittery at birth, with neonatal respiratory distress. Childhood features included poor weight gain, heat intolerance, tachycardia and hyperactivity. Ongoing problems are low frequency hearing loss, po...