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Thermogenesis and Thyroid Action

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FOB some time1,2 it has been realized that thyroid hormone raises metabolic rates, nincreases activity of the hexose monophosphate pathway, decreases apparent TPNH–DPN transhydrogenase activity and stimulates 5 α-steroid reductase activity. More recently thyroxin has been shown to increase by a factor of ten or twenty the activity of the intra-mitochondrial α-glycerophosphate dehydrogenase with no concurrent effect on the ‘soluble’ counterpart3,4.

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SMITH, R. Thermogenesis and Thyroid Action. Nature 204, 1311–1312 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1038/2041311a0

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