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Thyroid Hormones

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Abstract

The purpose of this section is twofold: to describe the methods for the determination of hormones secreted by the thyroid gland and to describe the investigation of thyroid function in experimental models. For information on the hypothalamic–pituitary–thyroid system and its investigation, see the sections on anterior pituitary hormones (N.7) and hypothalamic hormones (N.9).

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Sandow, J. (2015). Thyroid Hormones. In: Hock, F. (eds) Drug Discovery and Evaluation: Pharmacological Assays. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27728-3_79-1

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