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Iodine Deficiency in Pregnancy: The Effect on Neurodevelopment in the Child
Iodine is an integral part of the thyroid hormones, thyroxine (T(4)) and tri-iodothyronine (T(3)), necessary for normal growth and development. An adequate supply of cerebral T(3), generated in the fetal brain from maternal free T(4) (fT(4)), is needed by the fetus for thyroid hormone dependent neur...
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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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MDPI
2011
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3257674/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22254096 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/nu3020265 |