The Wolff–Chaikoff effect is a presumed reduction in thyroid hormone levels caused by ingestion of a large amount of iodine. It was discovered by Drs...

Wolff-Chaikoff effect, it isn't subject to an escape phenomenon. The three different mechanisms of high iodine response, the Plummer effect, the Wolff-Chaikoff...

reduce the synthesis of thyroid hormone via the Wolff–Chaikoff effect and its release via the Plummer effect. Some guidelines recommend that iodine be administered...

of two physiological compensation mechanisms, the Plummer effect and the Wolff–Chaikoff effect, which in normal persons and in persons with thyroid disease...

the thyroid gland, caused by phenomena including the Wolff–Chaikoff effect and the Plummer effect. However it is not used to treat certain autoimmune causes...

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Lyon Chaikoff (2 July 1902, in London, UK – 25 January 1966, in Berkeley, USA) was a Canadian-American physiologist and biochemist, known for the Wolff–Chaikoff...

organification process in thyroid hormone synthesis, the so-called Wolff–Chaikoff effect. Prior to 1940, iodides were the predominant antithyroid agents...

underactivity is mediated by two phenomena called the Plummer and Wolff–Chaikoff effect, where iodine suppresses the production of thyroid hormones; this...

inhibit production of thyroid hormones. This occurs because of the Wolff-Chaikoff effect, which is a phenomenon of rejection of large quantities of iodine...