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These mice appeared to be healthy and exhibited loss of T\/ebp\/Nkx2.1 expression in many, but not all, thyroid follicular cells as determined by immunohistochemistry and real-time PCR, thus presenting a T\/ebp-thyroid-conditional hypomorphic mice. Detailed analysis of the thyroids from T\/ebp(fl\/fl), T\/ebp(fl\/fl);TPO-Cre, and T\/ebp(fl\/ko) mice, where the latter mouse line is derived from crosses with the original T\/ebp\/Nkx2.1-heterozygous mice, revealed that T\/ebp(fl\/fl);TPO-Cre mice can be classified into two groups with different phenotypes: one having atrophic\/degenerative thyroid follicles with frequent presence of adenomas and extremely high serum TSH levels, and the other having an altered thyroid structure with reduced numbers of extraordinary dilated follicles consisting of excessive numbers of follicular cells as compared with those usually found in the normal thyroid. The latter phenotype was also observed in aged T\/ebp(fl\/ko) mouse thyroids. In vitro three-dimensional thyroid primary cultures using thyroids from T\/ebp(fl\/fl);TPO-Cre, T\/ebp(fl\/ko), and T\/ebp(fl\/fl) mice, and the latter treated with recombinant adenovirus with and without Cre expression, demonstrated that only cells from T\/ebp(fl\/fl) mice without adeno-Cre treatment formed follicular structures. 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