Appetite stimulants clinical applications

Thyroid dysfunction is a fairly common disorder to be found in clinical practice. The thyroid synthesizes two hormones, triiodothyronine (T ) and thyroxine (T4), dipeptides containing 3 and 4 atoms of iodine respectively in each molecule. The thyroid stimulates cell metabolism of most tissues, might cause hypermetabolism symptoms loss of weight in spite of increased appetite, palpitations, tremor of the fingers, anxiety, heat intolerance. The hormone activity is mainly carried out by T3. Most of it derives by monodeiodination from T4 that is secreted directly by the thyroid. Both hormones in the blood are bound to plasma proteins. In the development of medical applications of microcalorimetry, among the first pathological conditions to be studied were thyroid dysfunctions. 

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