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Studies of both standard and active metabolism agree with most previous findings that thyroid hormone lacks a calorigenic effect while the gonadal steroids stimulate oxygen consumption. Thyroxine, testosterone, or stilboestrol will produce a marked increase in the excretion of nitrogen as measured by changes in the ammonia of the ambient water.
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William S. Hoar (1958) studied this question.
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