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ReviewIntegrated environmental assessment and management2023

Thyroid-like hormone signaling in invertebrates and its potential role in initial screening of thyroid hormone system disrupting chemicals.

Jane E Morthorst, Henrik Holbech, Noémie De Crozé, Peter Matthiessen, Gerald A LeBlanc

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Review in Integrated environmental assessment and management, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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0cells of the map it votes in
8citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 6% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 21 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Mapping molluscan endocrinology: a systematic and critical appraisal.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026
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  3. Prioritising research on endocrine disruption in the marine environment: a global perspective.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Jane E MorthorstDepartment of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark.
Henrik HolbechDepartment of Biology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense M, Denmark.
Noémie De CrozéLaboratoire Recherche Environnementale, L'ORÉAL Recherche & Innovation, Aulnay-sous-Bois, France.
Peter MatthiessenMatthiessen Consultancy, The Manse, St. Dogmaels, Pembrokeshire, UK.
Gerald A LeBlancDepartment of Biological Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, USA.
University of Southern Denmark · DK21c Consultancy (United Kingdom) · GBL'Oréal (France) · FRNorth Carolina State University · US

Funding

Danish Environmental Protection Agency via the Danish Centre on Endocrine DisruptersEuropean Union Horizon 2020 programme 825753European Union's Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation ProgrammeMiljøstyrelsen No grant number - funding via Danish Centre on End
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This review examines the presence and evolution of thyroid-like systems in selected aquatic invertebrates to determine the potential use of these organisms in screens for vertebrate thyroid hormone axis disrupting chemicals (THADCs). Such a screen might support the phasing out of some vertebrate testing. Although arthropods including crustaceans do not contain a functional thyroid signaling system, elements of such a system exist in the aquatic phyla mollusks, echinoderms, tunicates, and cephalochordates. These phyla can synthesize thyroid hormone, which has been demonstrated in some groups to induce the nuclear thyroid hormone receptor (THR). Thyroid hormone may act in these phyla through interaction with a membrane integrin receptor. Thyroid hormone regulates inter alia metamorphosis but, unlike in vertebrates, this does not occur via receptor activation by the ligands triiodothyronine (T3) and thyroxine (T4). Instead, the unliganded nuclear receptor itself controls metamorphosis in mollusks, echinoderms, and tunicates, whereas the T3 derivative tri-iodothyroacetic acid (TRIAC) acts as a THR ligand in cephalochordates. In view of this, it may be possible to develop an invertebrate-based screen that is sensitive to vertebrate THADCs that interfere with thyroid hormone synthesis or metabolism along with interaction with membrane receptors. The review makes some recommendations for the need to develop an appropriate test method. Integr Environ Assess Manag 2023;19:63-82. © 2022 The Authors. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Society of Environmental Toxicology & Chemistry (SETAC).

Indexed as

Thyroid GlandThyroid HormonesAnimalsInvertebratesReceptors, Thyroid HormoneThyroxineTriiodothyronineReceptors, Thyroid HormoneThyroid HormonesThyroxineTriiodothyronineEndocrine disruptionInvertebrateScreeningThyroid

Identifiers

PMID35581168
PMCPMC10083991
OpenAlexW4280503094

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