Effects of neonatal thyroidectomy on the development of the vomeronasal organ in the rat.
The effects of postnatal thyroidectomy (on day 8 after birth) and 131I treatment (on day 10) on the development of the vomeronasal organ (VO) has been studied In the rat. Thyroidectomized rats showed decrements in the overall VO volume, volume of the neurosensorial epithelium, neuronal population and nuclear size of neurons. These results in VO paralleled those reported in the central nervous system after thyroidectomy.
D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D000831:Animals, Newborn; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D009300:Nasal Septum / Q000254:growth & development*; D011247:Pregnancy; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013965:Thyroidectomy