This is the process of elaborating, releasing, and oozing a 32-amino acid linear polypeptide hormone that is produced in humans primarily by the parafollicular cells (also known as C-cells) of the thyroid, and in many other animals in the ultimobranchial body.
Inclusions
C-cell hyperplasia of thyroid
Hypersecretion of thyrocalcitonin
Also indexed as
C-cell hyperplasia of thyroidHypersecretion of calcitoninHypersecretion of thyrocalcitonin
Nearby in Disorders of the thyroid gland or thyroid hormones system