Forskning i jod av dr. Sebastiano Venturi

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Iodine, thymus and immunity.

Iodine, thymus and immunity.
Venturi S, Venturi M
Nutrition, 2009; 25 (9) : 977-9

The United Nations nutrition policy papers [1,2], Food and Nutrition Board and Institute of Medicine [3], Dunn [4], Dunn and Delange [5] of the International Council for the Control of Iodine Deficiency Disorders reported that extrathyroidal iodine has an important action on the immune system. The high iodide concentration of thymus provides the anatomic rationale for this role of iodine in the immune system [6,7] (Fig. 1)

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