The thyroid is a butterfly-shaped gland that sits in the front of the neck. It produces hormones that are essential for heart rate, digestion, mood, and other functions crucial to human health.

A 46-year-old Asian woman was seen in the endocrine clinic for evaluation of a goiter. She was originally from China, where here physician noted that she had an enlarged thyroid gland and reported an ...

The functional unit of the thyroid gland, the thyroid follicle, dynamically responds to various stimuli to maintain thyroid hormone homeostasis. However, thyroid follicles in the adult human thyroid ...