The only known role of body iodine is as a constituent of the thyroid hormones.It has been suggested, however, that iodine has functions at other sites, in the pituitary (JENTZER 1953) and the ovaries (BROWN-GRANT 1961) for example.Numerous reviews deal with extrathyroid iodine metabolism (ELMER 1938,
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Ullberg et al. (1964) studied this question.