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IN the course of investigations into the nature of the chromactivating hormones of the teleost pituitary I have had occasion to examine in detail the well-known ‘bihumoral hypothesis’ first put forward by Hogben and Slome1, and afterwards adopted by a number of other workers. This hypothesis seeks to show that the observed time relations of humorally co-ordinated changes in colour are incompatible with a co-ordinating mechanism based on fluctuations in the level of a single hormone.
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KENT, A. Significance of the Time Relations of Humorally Co-ordinated Chromatic Responses. Nature 184, 2027–2028 (1959). https://doi.org/10.1038/1842027b0
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