抄録
It is well known that excessively secreted thyroidhormone frequently reduces liplds in serum anddeprives thyrotoxic patients of their body weight.On the contrary, hypothyreoidic patients show anelevated level of serum lipids and a gain in weight.Thus thyroid hormone is supposed to play animportant role on body composition.It has yet to bestudied, however, if a variation of thyroid hormonesin a physiological range affects serum lipids andbody fat.In order to make this point clear, thepresent experiment was designed.
