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Volume 96, Issue 5
1 November 1952
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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
Max W. Biggs
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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
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Received:
July 02 1952

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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