Effect of potassium Iodide on Thyroid Gland of Albino Mice

Abstract

The present study was designed to examine the effecacy of potassium iodide for its efficacy to induce morphological malformations and histopathological lesions of thyroid gland of adult male mice and pregnant mice Mus musculus.The histological examination showed many lesions of the thyroidof adult male mice and pregnant mice. The lesions appeared as such hemorrhage, atrophic and necrosis appeared in some cells with degeneration of nucleus and fibrosis was appeared in thyroid gland.