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THE fact that various marine algae are able to concentrate iodine against a gradient induced many workers to compare this mechanism with the uptake of iodine by the thyroid gland in mammals1,2. The reported results were incongruent in so far as some suggested that this mechanism may be similar3; others, that it is different from the one operating in the thyroid gland4.
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LEWITUS, Z., SCHREIBER, H. Mechanism for concentrating Iodine in Marine Algae. Nature 200, 893–894 (1963). https://doi.org/10.1038/200893a0
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