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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 gamma 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. Autoradiograms of sections of tibiae and pelts confirmed the analytical data. The findings suggest that the synthesis of sulfomucopolysaccharides is depressed in thyroidectomized rats.Entities:
Keywords: MUCOPOLYSACCHARIDES/metabolism
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Year: 1957 PMID: 13385407 PMCID: PMC2136670 DOI: 10.1084/jem.105.1.69
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Exp Med ISSN: 0022-1007 Impact factor: 14.307