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Human Thyroid System Development

Timeline of human thyroid system and brain development from conception to birth. Estimation of neurogenesis adapted from Bayer et al. (1993).

• Development of the human thyroid gland begins in the third week of gestation.

• GD 16-17 - embryonic thyroid is visible as an outgrowth in the floor of the primitive buccal cavity (the site of the future pharynx).

• • Additional lateral contributions to the embryonic thyroid originate from a portion of the fourth pharyngeal pouches; these lateral contributions are the origin of the C-cells, which produce calcitonin.

• GD29 - thyroglobulin (TBG), the precursor protein upon which thyroid hormone is produced and stored, is initially detected in thyroid follicle cells.

• GD45-50 - thyroid gland tissues merge and migrate to their final location.

• GD70 - thyroid gland is well developed; it begins concentrating iodide and producing thyroid hormone at this time (3).

• GW11 - TBG levels are detected in fetal serum as thyroid follicle cells mature, and continues to increase through gestation.

GD = gestation day GW = gestational week TBG = thyroglobulin

Links: Thyroid Development | Iodine Deficiency | Neural System Development

Reference

Howdeshell KL. (2002). A model of the development of the brain as a construct of the thyroid system. Environ. Health Perspect. , 110 Suppl 3, 337-48. PMID: 12060827

Bayer SA, Altman J, Russo RJ & Zhang X. (1993). Timetables of neurogenesis in the human brain based on experimentally determined patterns in the rat. Neurotoxicology , 14, 83-144. PMID: 8361683

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