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Updated: July 22, 2025
But all the arrangements in the animal economy for the production and loss of heat are themselves probably regulated by the central nervous system, there being a thermogenic centre situated above the spinal cord, and according to some observers in the optic thalamus. Physiological Society, p. xx., 1903; A.E. Boycott and J.S. Haldane, Effects of High Temperatures on Man.
Also it must be remembered that the heart also a muscle, never resting, does in the 24 hours no inconsiderable amount of work, and hence must give rise to no inconsiderable amount of heat. From this it is clear that the larger proportion of total heat of the body is supplied by the muscles. These are essentially the "thermogenic tissues."
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