SYNTHESIS OF SULFOMUCOPOLYSACCHARIDES IN THYROIDECTOMIZED RATS
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- 1 January 1957
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 105 (1) , 69-74
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.105.1.69
Abstract
The thyroid glands of rats were made non-functional by a single dose of iodine-131 on the 1st day after birth or by surgical removal on the 28th day. The incorporation of sulfate-sulfur into the sulfomucopolysaccharides of skeletons and pelts was found to be significantly depressed by thyroidectomy. Daily supplements of 5 or 10 γ of L-thyroxine, started on the 28th day, increased the uptake of sulfur-35, although it did not reach normal in the 2 weeks of treatment.Keywords
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