Calcitonin is a hormone secreted by the thyroid gland that reduces the concentration of blood calcium level when it has risen to an above normal level. This polypeptide hormone is made up of 32 ...

Glucagon and insulin, another kind of hormone, should work as a team to keep your blood sugar in balance. The cells in your pancreas that make glucagon are similar to cells that make insulin.

The third conjugate (glucagon/rT 3) included reverse T 3, an inactive metabolite of thyroid hormone. Labelling glucagon/T 3 with a fluorescent probe showed that the conjugate preferentially ...

Chemical Hybridization of Glucagon and Thyroid Hormone Optimizes Therapeutic Impact for Metabolic Disease. Cell , 2016; DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2016.09.014 Cite This Page : ...

Updated thresholds outperform those recommended by American Thyroid Association guidelines for patients with medullary thyroid cancer.

Glucagon, a hormone involved in regulating appetite, loses its ability to help obese people feel full after a meal, but it continues to suppress hunger pangs in people with type 1 diabetes ...

Calcitonin is a peptide hormone that in humans is produced by thyroid cells. This hormone is involved in the metabolism of calcium and phosphate and acts to reduce blood levels of calcium and ...

Monash University researchers have discovered how the hormone peptide glucagon could better treat conditions such as obesity and type 2 diabetes, which affect billions of people. Glucagon—like ...

Measuring serum calcitonin in patients with thyroid nodules can detect cases of medullary thyroid cancer and is recommended as routine in Europe but not in the United States.

Until recently, the hormone calcitonin was only thought to be produced by the thyroid gland, with no known effects on the heart. Now, research published in Nature has revealed that cells in the upper ...

Insulin and glucagon are essential hormones that help maintain a stable blood sugar level by responding to changes in it. In diabetes, problems with how the body releases insulin and glucagon lead ...

Calcitonin, which is also known as thyrocalcitonin, is a protein hormone that, in humans and other mammals, is mainly secreted by the parafollicular cells (C cells) of the thyroid gland. Image ...