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Assault on the thyroid by xenobiotics: Another attack on G-protein coupled receptors

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Benvenga, S. Assault on the thyroid by xenobiotics: Another attack on G-protein coupled receptors. J Endocrinol Invest 26, 948–949 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03348189

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