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The induction of mixed function hepatic oxygenases by rifampicin is known to increase the metabolic clearance rate (MCR) pf T4. By performing T3 and rT3 kinetics we have shown that rifampicin also increases the MCR of T3 and rT3. Using the fall of serum T4 during TSH suppression as an indirect marker of the production rate (PR) of T4, we have demonstrated that there was no major change in monodeiodination nor any shift to either 5′-or 5-monodeiodination. Rifampicin stimulates in mice the mixed function hepatic oxygenases. However, we were unable to increase hepatic deiodinase activity (deiodinase type I) in this species. It is therefore possible that the increased MCR of T4 in man is not mediated by an increased conversion rate either. As mixed function hepatic oxygenases are known to increase hepatic conjugation it is suggested that rifampicin increases the biliary excretion of iodothyronine conjugates.
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Finke, C., Juge, C., Goumaz, M. et al. Effects of rifampicin on the peripheral turnover kinetics of thyroid hormones in mice in men. J Endocrinol Invest 10, 157–162 (1987). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03347182
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