Effect of Dietary Nitrate on Thyroid Function
- 24 November 1961
- journal article
- review article
- Published by American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in Science
- Vol. 134 (3491), 1690
- https://doi.org/10.1126/science.134.3491.1690
Abstract
Experimental results indicate that 0.31 and 0.92 percent dietary nitrate, when consumed by rats and sheep respectively, can affect the normal iodine metabolism of the thyroid gland. The dietary level of iodine appears to be highly important when nitrate is present in the diet.Keywords
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