RATE OF CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS IN HYPO- AND HYPERTHYROID RATS
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- 1 November 1952
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Rockefeller University Press in The Journal of Experimental Medicine
- Vol. 96 (5) , 513-516
- https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.96.5.513
Abstract
The rate of cholesterol synthesis, measured by the rate of incorporation of tritium from body water into the cholesterol molecule, was found to be greater than normal in the hyperthyroid rat and below normal in the hypo-thyroid rat.Keywords
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