RATE OF CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS IN HYPO- AND HYPERTHYROID RATS

Byers , Sanford O.; Rosenman , Ray H.; Friedman , Meyer; Biggs , Max W.

doi:10.1084/jem.96.5.513

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Article| November 01 1952

RATE OF CHOLESTEROL SYNTHESIS IN HYPO- AND HYPERTHYROID RATS

Sanford O. Byers,

Sanford O. Byers

From the Mount Zion Hospital, the Harold Brunn Institute, San Francisco, and the Donner Laboratory of Medical Physics and the Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

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Ray H. Rosenman,

Ray H. Rosenman

From the Mount Zion Hospital, the Harold Brunn Institute, San Francisco, and the Donner Laboratory of Medical Physics and the Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

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Meyer Friedman,

Meyer Friedman

From the Mount Zion Hospital, the Harold Brunn Institute, San Francisco, and the Donner Laboratory of Medical Physics and the Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

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Max W. Biggs

From the Mount Zion Hospital, the Harold Brunn Institute, San Francisco, and the Donner Laboratory of Medical Physics and the Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

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Sanford O. Byers

From the Mount Zion Hospital, the Harold Brunn Institute, San Francisco, and the Donner Laboratory of Medical Physics and the Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

Ray H. Rosenman

From the Mount Zion Hospital, the Harold Brunn Institute, San Francisco, and the Donner Laboratory of Medical Physics and the Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

Meyer Friedman

From the Mount Zion Hospital, the Harold Brunn Institute, San Francisco, and the Donner Laboratory of Medical Physics and the Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

Max W. Biggs

From the Mount Zion Hospital, the Harold Brunn Institute, San Francisco, and the Donner Laboratory of Medical Physics and the Radiation Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley

Received: July 02 1952

Online ISSN: 1540-9538

Print ISSN: 0022-1007

Copyright, 1952, by The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research New York

1952

J Exp Med (1952) 96 (5): 513–516.

https://doi.org/10.1084/jem.96.5.513

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.

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