Biochemist Pharmacist: A Targeted Approach to TSH and Thyroid Disease

Abstract

Hormones are chemical messengers, synthesized and stored in the endocrine glands and acting through the bloodstream. Have roles in cell growth, and tissue metabolic regulation. Among the most important are hormones the thyroid because they control the energy consumption of the system. Thus, the TSH hormone has great importance because it stimulates the thyroid functionality, which, when unregulated, can cause serious pathologies such as hyper or hypothyroidism. In this way, knowing the synthesis and regulation of these hormones, as the symptoms and treatment of pathologies related to the same is of extreme importance to health care professionals, such as pharmacists. In addition, specifically, for these professionals is also necessary to know the relationship of the pathologies presented with their diagnosis and the medications used for the treatment and control, knowing their active ingredients and their modes of action, making this a multidisciplinary professional, as required and requested in the current job market. Thus, the present work has as its main objective to highlight the role of the pharmaceutical biochemist, relating the TSH with the action of thyroid gland, describing the main symptoms and diagnoses of diseases related to the hormones produced by the same, so how drugs are used, their active principles and modes of action.