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The authors suggest a new classification for heat producing processes. Their criteria are biochemical and not physiological as in the existing classification.
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PRUSINER, S., POE, M. Thermodynamic Considerations of Mammalian Thermogenesis. Nature 220, 235–237 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220235a0
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