Effect of Iodide on Thyroid Glands of Rats Kept at Low Temperature.
- 31 March 1949
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Experimental Biology and Medicine
- Vol. 70 (4) , 571-573
- https://doi.org/10.3181/00379727-70-16997
Abstract
Addition of KI at a level of 0.05% in the diet caused involution of the thyroid glands of rats maintained at room temp, or at 4[degree]C. The mechanism of this effect may correspond to the involuting actions of iodide in patients with hyperthyroidism. It is suggested that iodide may stimulate the secretion of an I-poor colloid into the lumen of the thyroid follicles by a mechanism related to its stimulating influence on salivation.Keywords
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