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A 40-year-old woman comes to her primary care physician complaining of nervousness and an unexplained weight loss of 20 pounds over the past 3 months despite her impression that  she is eating all the time. On physical examination, her eyes are  found to be protruding, her skin is moist and warm, and her fingers have a slight tremor. Compared to a normal individual, a biopsy of her thyroid gland would most likely reveal which of the following:

#Unit 7. System Physiology – Animal
  1. Decreased numbers of reabsorption lacunae
  2. Decreased evidence of endocytosis
  3. A decrease in the cross-sectional area occupied by colloid
  4. Increased levels of NIS in the basolateral membrane of thyrocytes.