Only the combined treatment with thyroxine and triiodothyronine ensures euthyroidism in all tissues of the thyroidectomized rat

Endocrinology

Volumn 137, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 2490-2502

  Escobar Morreale, Héctor F ^a,b,c   Del Rey, Francisco Escobar ^a   Obregón, M Jesús ^a   De Escobar, Gabriella Morreale ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES BIOMÉDICAS ALBERTO SOLS   (Spain)

^b CSIC   (Spain)

^c HOSPITAL RAMÓN Y CAJAL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LIOTHYRONINE; THYROXINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EUTHYROIDISM; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HYPOTHYROIDISM; LIOTHYRONINE BLOOD LEVEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 0029938145     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/endo.137.6.8641203     Document Type: Article

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