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Evolutionary adaptation of a mammalian species to an environment severely depleted of iodide
- Source :
- Scopus-Elsevier
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2003.
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Abstract
- Lack of dietary iodine is associated with thyroid insufficiency and its dire consequences including cretinism, yet territories severely deficient in iodine are home to many species of wild animals. The premise of our work is that an adaptation must be in place in order to allow these animals to thrive. We collected phyllotine rodents of the genus Auliscomys from the Altiplanic region of North Chile, an area historically associated with goitre and other manifestations of iodine deficiency disorders. The iodide concentration in the stream water in this locality, at
- Subjects :
- endocrine system
medicine.medical_specialty
Physiology
Clinical Biochemistry
Iodide
Radioimmunoassay
Thyroid Gland
Thyrotropin
chemistry.chemical_element
Environment
Biology
Iodine
Rats, Sprague-Dawley
Mice
Soil
Physiology (medical)
Internal medicine
Follicular phase
medicine
Animals
Chile
chemistry.chemical_classification
Thyroid
Water
Organ Size
medicine.disease
Adaptation, Physiological
Biological Evolution
Iodine deficiency
Rats
Muridae
Thyroxine
medicine.anatomical_structure
Endocrinology
chemistry
Dietary Iodine
Cretinism
Hormone
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 14322013 and 00316768
- Volume :
- 446
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Pflügers Archiv - European Journal of Physiology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....c4320d1738c4617bbfa8b311c4582734