Effect of Thiouracil and of Thyroidectomy on Liver Catalase Activity of Animals With and Without Implanted Tumors

1 October 1954

journal article
research article
Published by American Physiological Society in American Journal of Physiology-Legacy Content

Vol. 179 (1) , 43-45
https://doi.org/10.1152/ajplegacy.1954.179.1.43

Abstract

Administration of Thiouracil to rats and mice, and thyroidectomy of rats caused increase in catalase activity of the liver. An hypothesis is suggested of a possible role of the anterior pituitary in causing this change. Normal mice inoculated with Ehrlich as cites tumor showed the usual fall in catalase activity and thiouracil-treated mice inoculated with this tumor showed a corresponding reduction in catalase activity.

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