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KENDALL (Proc. Am. Physiol. Soc., Am. Jour. Physiol., 45, 540;.1918) named the crystalline compound he isolated from the thyroid thyroxin, as an abbreviation for thyro-oxy-indole, since he believed it to contain an indole nucleus. Harington has shown that, on the other hand, it is an iodised amino-acid, derived from tyrosine. He has gracefully accepted Kendall's name, merely adding the final e necessary for an amino-acid in English terminology.
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CAMERON, A. Designation of Thyroxine. Nature 119, 925 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119925a0
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