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Research Article Free access | 10.1172/JCI103347

AN EVALUATION OF POTASSIUM IODIDE AS A THERAPEUTIC AGENT IN THE TREATMENT OF EXPERIMENTAL HYPER-CHOLESTEREMIA AND ATHEROSCLEROSIS

Meyer Friedman, Richard Homer, Sanford O. Byers, Clarence Omoto, and Warren Hayashi

Harold Brunn Institute for Cardiovascular Research, Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco 15, Calif.

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Work done while Public Health Service Research Fellow, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, HF-4788.

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Aided by Grants from the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund and the National Institutes of Health, Grant H-119 (C6), Public Health Service.

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Harold Brunn Institute for Cardiovascular Research, Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco 15, Calif.

2

Work done while Public Health Service Research Fellow, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, HF-4788.

1

Aided by Grants from the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund and the National Institutes of Health, Grant H-119 (C6), Public Health Service.

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Harold Brunn Institute for Cardiovascular Research, Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco 15, Calif.

2

Work done while Public Health Service Research Fellow, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, HF-4788.

1

Aided by Grants from the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund and the National Institutes of Health, Grant H-119 (C6), Public Health Service.

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Harold Brunn Institute for Cardiovascular Research, Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco 15, Calif.

2

Work done while Public Health Service Research Fellow, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, HF-4788.

1

Aided by Grants from the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund and the National Institutes of Health, Grant H-119 (C6), Public Health Service.

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Harold Brunn Institute for Cardiovascular Research, Mount Zion Hospital, San Francisco 15, Calif.

2

Work done while Public Health Service Research Fellow, National Heart Institute, National Institutes of Health, HF-4788.

1

Aided by Grants from the Life Insurance Medical Research Fund and the National Institutes of Health, Grant H-119 (C6), Public Health Service.

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Published September 1, 1956 - More info

Published in Volume 35, Issue 9 on September 1, 1956
J Clin Invest. 1956;35(9):1015–1024. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI103347.
© 1956 The American Society for Clinical Investigation
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