Bioavailability Study of Iodine from Erythrosine and Iodophors. Iodophor II

摘要

The authors have used the following rationale in an attempt to determine the availability of iodine. The authors have tested the hypothesis 'iodine from Bovadine is physiologically available to participate in thyroid metabolism'. To accomplish this, they have used a three phase program. In the first phase, miniature pigs received a normal pig diet while the authors obtained base data necessary to make comparisons later in the experiment. The second phase involved feeding the same pigs an iodine free diet which depleted their iodine stores. Physiologic data was also obtained during this phase. During the third phase, high levels of Bovadine including some with a radioactive iodine tag were fed to the pigs of phase I and II. Bioavailability was determined by following the metabolism of the radioactive iodine.