抄録
Marked inhibition of weight-increase in the salivary glands and atrophy of the thymus were simultaneously observed in both male and female rats by the administration of the thioureylene-type antithyroid drugs.But considering the fact that the atrophy of the thymus experimentally induced by the administration of corticosteroid or testosterone did not result in a weight-decrease in the salivary glands and that, inversely, atrophy of the thymus was not always observed during a given period of salivary-ectomy or duct-ligation of the submaxillary glands, it seems, that there is no direct relationship between the thymus and the salivary glands. Hence, the marked change in the weight of both organs observed in the administration of an antithyroid drug is considered to be independent of each other.
