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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2017
Plasma inorganic iodine concentrations (PII, ng/ml) are increasingly used in preference to plasma thyroxine concentrations (T4) for diagnostic purposes. PII represents current dietary iodine intake and responds rapidly (within a very few days) to increases and decreases in dietary iodine (I) intake by cows (Rogers and Mee, 1966). This study measured changes in PII in response to different I intakes supplied by contrasting methods to beef cows during late pregnancy and early lactation.