Effects of Thyroxine
- Increases cardiac output
- Increases heart rate
- Increases ventilation rate
- Increases basal metabolic rate
- Potentiates the effects of catecholamines (i.e. increases sympathetic activity)
- Potentiates brain development
- Thickens endometrium in females
- increase metabolism of proteins and carbohydrates
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