Iodine is an elemental nutrient that is essential for mammals. Here we provide evidence for an acute therapeutic role for iodine in ischemia reperfusion injury. Infusion of the reduced form, iodide, but not the oxidized form iodate, reduces heart damage by as much as 75% when delivered intravenously following temporary loss of blood flow but prior to reperfusion of the heart in a mouse model of...

The main function of the thyroid gland is to make hormones, T4 and T3, which are essential for the regulation of metabolic processes throughout the body. As at any factory, effective production depends on three key components adequate raw material, efficient machinery, and appropriate controls. Iodine is the critical raw material, because 65% of T4 weight is iodine. Ingested iodine is absorbed ...

l. Comparative aspects of iodine conservation in mammals were studied on the basis of published data on kidney and thyroid weights and function. 2. Very small mammals possessed an efficient reabsorption of iodide to compensate for the high glomerular filtration rate (GFR). 3. Humans and mammals of a similar and larger size had “lost” the ability to reabsorb iodide efficiently. 4. Very large mam...

Rechargeable batteries with iodine-based cathodes have recently been the subject of significant interest due to moderately high theoretical specific energy (≈600 Wh kg−1) and high-rate capability (>5 C) iodine cathode. Progress however has impeded by relatively low contents reported cathodes. This is likely rates poly-iodide shuttling cell instability that takes place at higher loadings. To rei...

BACKGROUND Iodine is an essential micronutrient used by the thyroid gland in the production of thyroid hormones. Both excessive and insufficient iodine intakes can cause thyroid diseases thus harmful to the human body. Inadequate iodine intake by human body causes Iodine Deficiency Disorders (IDD) and hypothyroidism. Excessive iodine intake causes Iodine Induced Hyperthyroidism (IIH). Universal...

Iodide is a micronutrient essential for thyroid hormone production. The uptake and metabolism of iodide by thyrocytes is crucial to proper thyroid function. Iodide ions are drawn into the thyroid follicular cell via the sodium-iodide symporter (NIS) in the cell membrane and become integrated into tyrosyl residues to ultimately form thyroid hormones. We sought to learn how an abnormal concentrat...

The epidemiology of thyroid disorders is significantly associated with iodine supply. In 1999, Slovenia increased iodine content in kitchen salt from 10 mg to 25 mg of potassium iodide per kg of salt. According to the WHO criteria, Slovenia shifted from a mildly iodine-deficient country to a country with adequate iodine intake. Ten years after the increase in iodine intake, the incidence of dif...

BACKGROUND Iodine is a vital component of the thyroid hormones and is required for normal growth, development, and tissue metabolism in humans and animals. OBJECTIVES This study for the first time compares the effects of heating during pasteurization and sterilization on the iodine concentration of milk for an adequate provision of dietary iodine. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was carrie...

the complex formation reaction between iodine with tetrabutylammonium halides (tbax) has been studied spectrophotometrically in chloroform solution at 25ºc. various aspects of the spectra of iodine in the presence of various concentration of different tetrabutylammonium halides have been discussed in terms of electronic specifications of iodine and halides. in the case of tetrabutylammonium iod...

It is hypothesized that dietary iodine deficiency is associated with the development of mammary pathology and cancer. A review of the literature on this correlation and of the author's own work on the antioxidant function of iodide in iodide-concentrating extrathyroidal cells is reported. Mammary gland is embryogenetically derived from primitive iodide-concentrating ectoderm, and alveolar and d...