0:00 hello and welcome to the next portion of
0:01 the endocrine physiology chapter
0:03 going over the thyroid hormones in the
0:06 thyroid gland
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0:11 so going over our thyroid hormones this
0:13 is produced by the
0:15 follicular epithelial cells within the
0:17 thyroid gland itself
0:18 we have two types of thyroid hormones
0:21 we've got t4 and t3
0:23 t3 is the metabolically active
0:26 hormone within the actual cell itself
0:29 but
0:30 t4 is more abundant in the plasma so
0:32 it's almost
0:33 stored as t4 and the plasma goes into
0:35 the cell and it gets converted to t3
0:38 within the cell
0:39 to then have its actions the difference
0:41 between
0:42 t3 and t4 is just the amount of iodine
0:45 within the molecule
0:46 so t4 means that there's four iodine
0:49 molecules within
0:50 that hormone whereas t3 has three iodine
0:53 molecules so that's the major difference
0:54 between the two
0:56 so going into how the thyroid hormone
0:58 gets produced within the thyroid gland
1:01 first we should look at the anatomy of
1:03 the thyroid gland within the thyroid
1:05 gland we have these thyroid follicles
1:07 which is essentially a ring of
1:09 follicular epithelial cells
1:11 which secrete colloid into the lumen
1:14 this colloid contains thyroid hormone
1:18 attached to a molecule called
1:20 thyroglobulin
1:21 when the gland gets stimulated to
1:23 secrete thyroid hormone
1:25 that thyroid hormone within the colloid
1:28 then gets endocytosed into the cell
1:30 and then excreted via the follicular
1:33 cells into
1:34 the blood vessels so now we should talk
1:36 about how thyroid hormone actually gets
1:39 produced within the follicular
1:40 epithelial cell that's shown here in
1:42 figure 9.18 here and all the specific
1:45 steps
1:46 so the first step is actually getting
1:48 iodine into the cell since that's the
1:50 major component of thyroid hormone
1:52 interestingly the thyroid gland is the
1:54 only gland that actually uses iodine so
1:56 all your dietary iodine
1:58 goes to your thyroid gland to get
2:00 incorporated
2:01 into thyroid hormone so via the sodium
2:04 co-transporter here
2:05 iodine gets transported into the
2:08 follicular epithelial cell
2:09 and this transporter actually gets
2:11 upregulated if we have iodine deficiency
2:14 to help shuttle even more iodine into
2:17 the cell
2:18 this is against its concentration and
2:20 electrical gradient so
2:22 it's quite a push it requires a lot of
2:24 energy to actually get the iodine into
2:26 the cell
2:27 clearly if there is a severe iodine
2:29 deficiency then we will have a lack of
2:31 iodine going into the cell
2:33 and then a reduced production of our
2:34 thyroid hormone but this
2:36 transporter tries to combat it initially
2:38 by up regulating in the presence of mild
2:41 deficiency
2:42 now once iodine enters the cell it then
2:44 gets oxidized
2:45 into an i2 molecule via what's called a
2:48 thyroid peroxidase this thyroid
2:51 peroxidase is going to come
2:52 up a couple times but you'll see that
2:53 within the follicular lumen now we have
2:56 our oxidized iodine as i2 now this i2
2:59 will then
3:00 bind with a thyroglobulin molecule which
3:03 comes from the cell
3:04 being synthesized from a tyrosine
3:06 molecule so the combination of iodine
3:08 with thyroglobulin
3:10 is called organification and then that
3:12 creates this molecule which is
3:14 thyroglobulin with either an
3:15 mit or dit mit stands for
3:19 mono iodine tyrosine and then dit stands
3:22 for diado tyrosine basically
3:25 mit means there's one iodine with that
3:27 tyrosine molecule on the thyroglobulin
3:30 dit means there's two iodines so at this
3:33 stage we then have another peroxidase
3:35 reaction
3:36 which will combine these molecules to
3:38 create t4 and t3
3:41 so if we combine two dits then we're
3:43 going to end up with t4
3:45 if we combine the dit with an mit then
3:48 we're going to end up with t3
3:50 because that's simple maths we're just
3:52 adding on iodine together so then we end
3:54 up with four iodines in the case of t4
3:57 and then three iodines in the case of t3
4:00 there is also some residual mit and dit
4:02 molecules
4:03 left on this thyroglobulin so this is
4:06 the kind of final product that sits
4:08 within the follicular lumen
4:09 which is this thyroglobulin with
4:11 attached t4
4:13 and then some mit and dit so this just
4:16 sits in the follicular lumen
4:18 waiting for the stimuli to secrete t4
4:21 so once that stimulus occurs which
4:23 predominantly is the secretion of
4:25 thyroid stimulating hormone from that
4:26 anterior pituitary gland
4:28 then this thyroglobulin complex is going
4:31 to get endocytosed
4:32 into the follicular cell and then it's
4:35 going to release
4:36 its t4 and t3 into circulation
4:39 that thyroglobulin tyrosine molecule is
4:41 going to get recycled
4:43 so is the mit and dit releasing its
4:45 iodine to then get recycled back
4:47 into this equation again so that is the
4:50 entire production
4:51 of thyroid hormone remember t4 is the
4:54 most prevalent molecule in the plasma
4:56 but then t3 is the more metabolically
4:58 active so once
4:59 in the circulation these thyroid
5:02 hormones actually bind to something
5:03 called
5:03 thyroxine binding globulin so the
5:05 majority of our thyroid hormone is
5:07 actually
5:08 bound to proteins within the plasma and
5:10 that means that it's almost
5:12 stored in the plasma for the cells the
5:15 free
5:15 hormones are the only physiologically
5:18 active hormones
5:19 so if we have less of this globulin
5:21 molecule that means more of the thyroid
5:24 within the plasma is going to be in the
5:26 free active
5:27 form so we may have less globulin and
5:29 hepatic failure which is the organ that
5:32 actually produces these globulins which
5:34 means we have more of the active t4 t3
5:37 in the plasma
5:38 that actually gets sensed by the
5:39 anterior pituitary gland
5:41 which means that we secrete less thyroid
5:44 stimulating hormone as a negative
5:45 feedback mechanism
5:46 so we actually reduce the amount of
5:48 thyroid gland secretion in that
5:50 situation
5:51 whereas if we have an increased level of
5:53 globulins so then it's actually
5:55 holding more of that thyroid hormone in
5:57 the plasma as
5:58 non-active or protein-bound thyroid
6:01 hormone which is going to happen let's
6:03 say in pregnancy which inhibits hepatic
6:05 breakdown of this globulin
6:06 that means that there is less active t43
6:10 that is free within the blood the
6:12 anterior pituitary gland senses that and
6:14 thinks that we have
6:15 a relative thyroid deficiency so then
6:17 it's going to release
6:18 more tsh to increase the secretion of
6:21 thyroid hormone
6:22 once the thyroid hormone actually enters
6:25 the cell remember predominantly
6:27 it's going to be t4 that enters the cell
6:29 since that is more abundant
6:31 in our plasma the target tissue will
6:33 then convert that t4
6:35 into active thyroid hormone as in t3
6:38 using the enzyme 5-ironase now that will
6:42 also produce some of this reverse
6:44 t3 which is inactive but the active
6:48 component is
6:49 t3 now during starvation when you don't
6:52 have many nutrients and you are not
6:54 producing that much energy
6:56 and you need to reduce your metabolic
6:58 rate then you will inhibit
6:59 this five iodine enzyme to reduce your
7:03 metabolic rate
7:04 by reducing the amount of active thyroid
7:06 hormone in your target cells
7:08 because thyroid hormone the whole thing
7:11 about it is that it actually
7:12 increases our metabolic rate so if
7:14 you're in the starvation
7:16 state you need to conserve energy you're
7:18 going to produce
7:19 less active thyroid hormone so then your
7:22 cell is going to have a lower basal
7:24 metabolic rate that gets us to the
7:25 regulation of hormone secretion we've
7:27 already talked about the globulin levels
7:30 so if you have
7:30 increased globulin levels then you're
7:32 going to increase the secretion of your
7:34 thyroid hormone because there's less
7:36 free hormones and vice versa thyroid
7:39 stimulating hormone is clearly the main
7:41 stimulation for secretion from the
7:43 thyroid glands and then thyroid
7:45 stimulating immunoglobulins
7:46 is another molecule which basically acts
7:48 like tsh at the receptor of the thyroid
7:51 gland
7:52 and that's actually a cause for
7:54 hyperthyroidism called graves disease
7:56 which is just
7:56 excessive production of this thyroid
7:59 stimulating immunoglobulin
8:00 which tells the thyroid gland to produce
8:03 a lot of
8:04 thyroid hormone so you end up in a
8:05 hyperthyroid state
8:07 in terms of inhibitory factors obviously
8:09 if you have severe iodine deficiency you
8:11 don't have enough iodine to incorporate
8:13 into your thyroid hormones you could
8:14 have deficiency of that drnas
8:17 which releases t4 and t3 from your
8:19 thyroglobulin ironically excessive
8:22 iodine intake actually
8:23 inhibits the organification of iodine to
8:26 a thyroglobulin
8:27 which is also an inhibitory factor and
8:29 then lastly any medications that's going
8:31 to inhibit
8:32 the movement of iodine into the cell or
8:34 inhibit those peroxidase enzymes which
8:37 create the thyroid hormone themselves
8:39 so next up we're going to talk about the
8:40 actual actions of thyroid hormones
8:42 the easiest way to think about this is
8:44 that thyroid hormone gets into the cell
8:47 activates the nuclear receptor via t3
8:51 and then that causes the increased
8:53 synthesis of new proteins via
8:55 transcription and translation
8:57 so thyroid hormone will get into the
8:59 cells
9:00 and increase the metabolism of that cell
9:03 so whatever that cell may be
9:04 it's just going to increase the
9:06 metabolic rate of that cell so it's
9:08 going to cause growth
9:10 of our organs it's going to cause bone
9:12 maturity
9:13 it's going to cause maturation of our
9:15 central nervous system
9:16 in our cardiovascular system it's going
9:18 to increase our cardiac output because
9:19 it gets into the myocardial cells
9:22 basically increases the enzymes or
9:24 calcium recycling
9:25 increases our contractions increases the
9:28 beta receptors on the cells so then
9:30 they're more likely to get stimulated by
9:32 the sympathetic nervous system
9:34 and increase cardiac output it increases
9:36 metabolism just because it increases the
9:39 cycling of glucose we're increasing the
9:41 protein production to increase glucose
9:43 absorption
9:44 to produce glucose increase lipolysis
9:47 increase protein synthesis and
9:49 degradation ultimately it actually
9:51 has a net catabolic effect on protein
9:54 degradation because your entire body
9:57 is basically just churning through its
9:59 metabolic processes it's just trying to
10:01 work as hard as possible
10:03 it increases our basal metabolic rate by
10:05 increasing the production of our sodium
10:07 potassium atpase
10:09 transporters which just increases the
10:11 amount of
10:12 oxygen consumption because we need to
10:14 produce a lot of atp
10:15 to now feed these increased sodium
10:17 potassium atpases
10:19 so oxygen consumption goes up a lot of
10:22 energy gets used
10:23 we increase our heat production due to
10:25 that increased use of
10:26 energy and then our basal metabolic rate
10:29 increases
10:29 so the typical clinical signs of someone
10:32 with excessive
10:33 thyroid hormone which is up regulating
10:35 all of these cells basal metabolic rate
10:38 is going to be an increased hunger but
10:40 yet weight loss because you're just
10:42 chewing through all that extra energy
10:44 and excitability or irritability
10:46 obviously the opposite is also true if
10:48 you don't have enough thyroid hormone
10:50 then your basal metabolic rate is going
10:52 to reduce everything's going to reduce
10:54 so you're going to become lethargic
10:56 sluggish and gain
10:57 weight now it does go into some of the
10:59 causes of hyperthyroidism and
11:02 hypothyroidism
11:03 for people the main cause of
11:05 hyperthyroidism so high thyroid gland is
11:07 that graves disease remember we
11:09 increase the level of our thyroid
11:11 stimulating immunoglobulins
11:13 if you have high of those that means
11:15 that you're going to produce a lot of t4
11:17 and t3 that's going to have a negative
11:18 feedback
11:19 on your anterior pituitary gland so your
11:21 tsh is going to be low and that's the
11:23 same if you have a thyroid gland
11:25 neoplasia that's producing excessive
11:27 thyroid
11:28 hormone so you can sometimes use thyroid
11:30 stimulating hormone levels as a
11:32 telltale to see what's going on
11:34 obviously if you've got something that's
11:36 increasing t43 production
11:38 independent of tsh that's going to have
11:40 a negative feedback on tsh
11:42 and you'll have low tsh levels obviously
11:45 if you have hyperthyroidism however due
11:47 to
11:47 increased tsh levels then your tsh is
11:50 going to be high in addition to your
11:52 thyroid hormones but that happens much
11:54 less commonly when it comes to
11:55 hypothyroidism the most common reason is
11:58 immune disruption of our thyroid glands
12:00 or thyroiditis
12:01 so that's going to reduce your t4 and t3
12:03 levels which via negative feedback is
12:05 going to increase your tsh levels
12:07 because tsh is going to say why aren't
12:09 we producing any t4 and t3
12:11 so tsh is going to be high t4 t3 is
12:15 going to be low
12:16 another clinical sign associated with
12:18 hypothyroidism is
12:19 mixed edema which is increased
12:21 filtration of fluid
12:22 out of your capillaries causing edema of
12:24 the subcutaneous tissues
12:26 because of increased osmotically active
12:29 muco-polysaccharides within your
12:30 interstitial fluid
12:32 when it comes to treatment it's rather
12:34 self-explanatory for hypothyroidism
12:36 you're just going to do hormone
12:37 replacement therapy by giving thyroid
12:39 hormone
12:40 for the treatment of hyperthyroidism
12:42 high thyroid hormone
12:43 then there's three real options
12:45 medications to inhibit the synthesis of
12:47 thyroid hormones
12:49 surgical removal of the thyroid gland or
12:51 radioactive
12:52 ablation that's when you give
12:54 radioactive iodine since the thyroid
12:56 gland is the only gland that uses iodine
12:58 then you just only have radioactivity
13:00 within the thyroid gland which kills off
13:02 only the thyroid gland so those are our
13:05 treatment options
13:06 now the last thing we'll talk about here
13:07 is goiter goiter just
13:09 means that the thyroid gland has
13:10 enlarged
13:12 and that's going to occur whenever we
13:13 have high levels of
13:15 trophic hormones which includes tsh
13:18 and also thyroid stimulating
13:20 immunoglobulin
13:21 so any thyroid abnormality where we have
13:24 increased tsh
13:26 or increased thyroid stimulating
13:28 immunoglobulin is going to stimulate the
13:30 growth of the thyroid gland
13:32 usually we have increased tsh either
13:34 because of a tumor
13:36 in the anterior pituitary gland which is
13:38 uncommon
13:39 or because we have low t4 tsh levels
13:42 with very low negative feedback to our
13:44 interior pituitary gland
13:46 so that's going to be the end of this
13:48 video for today i hope you enjoyed it
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