Pituitary-thyroid axis in short- and long-term experimental diabetes mellitus
Short-term experimental diabetes mellitus (DM) produces a significant decrease in serum thyroid hormones, a decreased or normal serum thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH) and a reduction in hepatic and renal T4-5'-deiodination. However, little is known about the effects of chronic diabetes mellitu...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Associação Brasileira de Divulgação Científica
1997-01-01
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Series: | Brazilian Journal of Medical and Biological Research |
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Online Access: | http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0100-879X1997000200017 |