Testing ruled out their first suspicion. But further tests pinpointed what they—and the boy—had been missing: iodine. A century ago, iodine deficiency affected kids across large swaths of the ...

A radioactive iodine uptake test, or RAIU, is typically performed with a thyroid scan to help determine thyroid health and functioning. The test helps your healthcare provider see how much radioactive ...

Objectives: This study aimed to explore the effect of maternal iodine status on the brain development of offspring in rats. Since in human studies, the interference of environmental factors and other ...

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Testing ruled out their first suspicion. But further tests pinpointed what they — and the boy — had been missing: iodine. A century ago, iodine deficiency affected kids across large swaths of ...

The following recommendations will give you an idea of precautions to take to avoid exposing other people (as well as pets) to iodine 131, which may be present in bodily fluids or occur as a result of ...

It dissolves readily in nitric acid, with formation of the hydrate of osmium tetroxide, the so-called ... but rapidly deliquesce in moist air. Iodine appears to possess even less affinity for ...

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This valuable study reports the induction of supernumerary inner hair cells in the mouse cochlea upon reducing the expression level of a tight-junction protein (claudin-9) at developmental stages.