- Salcatonin
Nature
Salcatonin is a peptide
hormone secreted by the parafollicular cells of thethyroid gland in response tohypercalcemia , which lowers blood calcium and phosphate by promoting renal excretion; chemotherapy forPaget's disease and severehypercalcemia .Clinical Uses
Synthetic Salmon Calcitonin , used theraputeically which is twenty times more effective and longer duration than human
calcitonin
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