Abstract
Summary and Conclusions
In pregnant rats deprived of their thyroid and parathyroids a very high rate of mortality occurred at term. While it seems logical to attribute these results to parathy-roid deficiency, and indeed more recent experiments in this laboratory support this conclusion, nevertheless other factors may be of importance. Work is in progress in an attempt to elucidate the problem.
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