Thyroid-stimulating hormone
| Thyroid-stimulating hormone, alpha | |||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||
| Symbol | CGA | ||||||
| Alt. symbols | HCG, GPHa, GPHA1 | ||||||
| NCBI gene | 1081 | ||||||
| HGNC | 1885 | ||||||
| OMIM | 118850 | ||||||
| RefSeq | NM_000735 | ||||||
| UniProt | P01215 | ||||||
| Other data | |||||||
| Locus | Chr. 6 q14-q21 | ||||||
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| Thyroid-stimulating hormone, beta | |||||||
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| Identifiers | |||||||
| Symbol | TSHB | ||||||
| NCBI gene | 7252 | ||||||
| HGNC | 12372 | ||||||
| OMIM | 188540 | ||||||
| RefSeq | NM_000549 | ||||||
| UniProt | P01222 | ||||||
| Other data | |||||||
| Locus | Chr. 1 p13 | ||||||
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Thyroid-stimulating hormone (also known as thyrotropin, thyrotropic hormone, or abbreviated TSH) is a pituitary hormone that stimulates the thyroid gland to produce thyroxine (T4), and then triiodothyronine (T3) which stimulates the metabolism of almost every tissue in the body. It is a glycoprotein hormone produced by thyrotrope cells in the anterior pituitary gland, which regulates the endocrine function of the thyroid.