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Human Calcitonin

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Two calcitonin peptides have been characterized from human C-cell tumours. This has important practical consequences.

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NEHER, R., RINIKER, B., MAIER, R. et al. Human Calcitonin. Nature 220, 984–986 (1968). https://doi.org/10.1038/220984a0

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