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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Feb 16.
Published in final edited form as: Lab Invest. 2017 Jan 23;97(4):478–489. doi: 10.1038/labinvest.2016.158

Figure 1.

Figure 1

(a) The lower third of the right and left lobes of the mouse thyroid was removed. Bilateral en bloc resection (upper panel) and an hematoxylin and eosin (H&E)-stained section (lower panel) of the thyroid gland. Scale bar, 60 μm. (b) A normal thyroid gland from a 12-week-old control mouse is shown. Arrow, endocytic vacuoles in intraluminal colloid. H&E staining. Scale bar, 30 μm. (c) The mean serum level of serum-free T4 (fT4) in partially thyroidectomized (PT) mice was decreased to 1.76 ± 0.37 μg/dl at postoperative day 7 compared with that in the sham operation group (P = 0.004). **P<.01. The mean serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) level in PT mice was increased to 414.49 ± 294.89 ng/ml at postoperative day 7 compared with that in the sham operation group (P = 0.040). *P<0.05. (d) Representative images show thyroid follicles at 7 days after PT. H&E staining. Scale bar, 30 μm.