Talk:Thyroid hormone
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This article was produced from a merge of thyroxine and triiodothyronine. tb 00:44, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
This was then merged with the existing article at thyroid hormones. (Note the s.) tb 01:06, 21 Mar 2004 (UTC)
Absorbed well by the "gut"? That sounds a bit colloquial. I'm changing it to "digestive system".
- I've been told that the word is used in medicine. I'm reverting my change.
'Gut' is perfectly acceptable medical/anatomical terminology for the upper and lower bowels, and more accurate here than 'digestive system' which includes the orophrarynx from which the thyroid hormones aren't absorbed. Kay Dekker 18:26, 26 January 2006 (UTC)
Could we get some more specifics, especially in the "function" area?
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[edit] Thyroglobulin?
I think the page on Thyroglobulin could useuflly be absorbed here as well.Midgley 01:38, 10 January 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Other uses?
I was perscribed this as a way to boost the effectiveness of an SSRI. Does anyone know much about this practice and how it works? — Soupisgoodfood 14:23, 5 March 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Mispelling?
iodothyronamineagafdg I think this is mispelled, but I don't know what is correct. Anybody else know? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Jasonco (talk • contribs) 01:32, 26 January 2007 (UTC).
[edit] Merger
It has been suggested that triiodothyronine be merged into thyroid hormone. I believe they should not be merged. We have a rule at WP:CHEM - one article per chemical compound. Triiodothyronine is a single compound and thus should remain a separate article from thyroxine.
The thyroid hormone article is fine, but there should be separate articles for each of the compounds mentioned - there needs to be a chembox for each one, where data such as molecular formula are available.
Ben 23:05, 7 February 2007 (UTC)
- I agree - I don't think the articles should be merged. --Arcadian 23:30, 14 February 2007 (UTC)
- I also think these two compounds deserve their own article. Since it's been agreed upon for about two months that the merger should not go ahead, I'm removing the requests to merge. KBi 04:42, 12 April 2007 (UTC)
[edit] The diagrams
Is there some valid reason that the two molecular diagrams are rendered differently? Or is it just that they came from different sources?
Looking at triiodothyronine and thyroxine bond by bond, I seem to find that they differ by exactly one iodine atom. This would be quite obvious if they were oriented in the same way and used similar conventions for the bonds in the neighborhood of the amine group. Not a big deal, of course, but there's a failure of clarity here; unless, that is, the different drawings are expressing some actual chemical difference beyond a one-atom substitution. Dandrake 00:16, 19 June 2007 (UTC)Ď
