Browsing by Subject "iodine"
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(2013-02-01)Following a large-scale radioactive release, transfer factors (TF) are used to estimate the amount of radioactive material retained by an organism. These values are based on the concentration of the consumed radionuclide ...
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(2015-09-23)In all vertebrates thyroid hormones are essential for normal growth, metabolism, and development. Thyroid hormones are unusual in that they require iodine to function. While the pathway of iodide uptake in terrestrial ...
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(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1940)
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(Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, 1939)
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(2017-12-11)Iodine, a non-metallic trace element, is one of the heaviest elements essential for normal biological function. Vertebrate animals must obtain iodine from the environment to manufacture thyroid hormones and sufficient ...
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(2013-02-06)Thyroid hormones play crucial roles in regulation of growth, metabolism, reproduction, and other essential physiological processes. In mammals, thyroid hormone synthesis is dependent on uptake of iodine from the blood into ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2005-02-17)Iodine is a biophilic element with one natural long-lived isotope, 129I (t1/2= 15.6 million years), and one stable isotope, 127I. The inventory of 129I in surface environments has been overwhelmed by anthropogenic releases ...
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(Texas Agricultural Extension Service, 1976)
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(2014-08-13)Deep–sea black corals have been found to be long-lived and grow in a tree like fashion depositing rings in their skeleton that have been suggested to be annual growth bands. Iodine was used in this study to develop a novel ...