Mouse Thyroid Gland Changes in Aging: Implication of Galectin-3 and Sphingomyelinase

• Main Authors: Giovanna Traina (Author), Samuela Cataldi (Author), Paola Siccu (Author), Elisabetta Loreti (Author), Ivana Ferri (Author), Angelo Sidoni (Author), Michela Codini (Author), Chiara Gizzi (Author), Marzia Sichetti (Author), Francesco Saverio Ambesi-Impiombato (Author), Tommaso Beccari (Author), Francesco Curcio (Author), Elisabetta Albi (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Hindawi Limited, 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Prevalence of thyroid dysfunction and its impact on cognition in older people has been demonstrated, but many points remain unclarified. In order to study the effect of aging on the thyroid gland, we compared the thyroid gland of very old mice with that of younger ones. We have first investigated th...