DOGS AIDED TESTS
HARDENED ARTERIES NEW YORK, May 10. In experiments to determine the causes of arteriosclerosis in man. U.S. doctors have artificially produced the disease in dogs. The publication Archives of Pathology reported this week that the doctors believe they are on the track of the causes of the hardening of man’s arterPreviously, the condition had been induced only in rabbits, chickens and guinea-pig;; by feeding them cholesterol —an element appearing in fatty substances that form lesions in arterial walls.
Scientists had failed to induce the same conditions in d9gs, cats and monkeys which are omnivorous animals like man. Backed by the U.S. Health Department, Drs. Alfred Steiner and Forrest Kendall experimented and found that thyroid plays an important part in regulating tire amount of cholesterol in the blood. Later the doctors found that they could modify the effect of thyroid by feeding animals thiouracil which permitted cholesterol to produce arteriosclerosis.
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Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 26 May 1947, Page 4
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152DOGS AIDED TESTS Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22339, 26 May 1947, Page 4
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