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BARRY'S recent communication1 on the resemblance of the chemical constitution of thyroxine to that of diploicin which was isolated by Nolan2 from the lichen Buella canescens, and which, according to Burger and associates3, possesses tuberculostatic activity in vitro, has induced us to give the following summary concerning the influence exerted by thyroxine and hypothyroidism on the course of experimental tuberculosis in the guinea pig.
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IZZO, R., CICARDO, V. The Thyroid and Tuberculosis. Nature 158, 590 (1946). https://doi.org/10.1038/158590a0
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