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. 1972 Jul;128(3):597–604. doi: 10.1042/bj1280597

Effects of hypo- and hyper-thyroidism on liver composition, blood glucose, ketone bodies and insulin in the male rat

Ana Aranda 1, Eladio Montoya 1, Emilio Herrera 1
PMCID: PMC1173811  PMID: 4634830

Abstract

1. Thyroidectomized rats injected daily with 0, 0.1, 2 or 25μg of l-thyroxine/100g body wt. were compared with intact controls. In plasma, the protein-bound iodine was decreased in the rats given the 0 or 0.1μg doses and increased in those given the 25μg dose. 2. Blood glucose decreased in those given 2μg and was augmented in those given 25μg, and ketone bodies were the same in all the groups. 3. Plasma insulin was lowest in the rats given the 0 or 0.1μg doses and was highest in those given the 2 or 25μg doses of thyroxine. 4. After 48h starvation, the decrease in blood glucose and increase in ketone bodies observed in all the groups was greatest in the group not supplemented with thyroxine. 5. Plasma insulin concentrations remained at the value for fed animals in the rats given the 25μg dose of thyroxine but decreased in the other groups. 6. In fed animals, concentrations of hepatic DNA P, citrate, total fatty acids and acetyl-CoA were similar in all the groups, and glycogen was low only in the rats given the 25μg dose of thyroxine. 7. After 48h starvation, liver DNA P, total fatty acids and acetyl-CoA increased in all the groups, except in the rats given the 25μg dose, where both total fatty acids and acetyl-CoA remained at the value for fed animals. Liver citrate did not change in the groups given the 0 or 25μg doses of thyroxine, but decreased in the other groups. 8. The results are discussed in relation to the regulation of intermediary metabolism in hypo- and hyper-thyroidism.

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