Calcitonin (Calcitonin)
Calcitonin is secreted by the parafollicular C-cells of the thyroid gland. Its primary physiological effect is to lower serum calcium levels. Elevated levels of calcitonin (>100 pg/mL) may be encountered in a variety of pathological conditions including leukemias and myeloproliferative disorders. Medullary thyroid carcinoma is the most notable condition where calcitonin levels are elevated.
Swiss-Prot Accession Number: P01258
Product AssociationsThis analyte is not currently part of Myriad RBM's testing menu.
PublicationsSerum Apolipoprotein E and Other Inflammatory Markers Can Identify Non-Responding Patients to a Dendritic Cell Vaccine (2018) Leeman H, Kaminska E, Green D, Bodman-Smith M, Gravett A, Bodman-Smith K, Copier J, Coulton G, Fusi A, Dalgleish AG Translational Oncology
Protein Biomarker Druggability Profiling (2017) Mani S, Cannon D, Ohls R, Oprea T, Mathias S, Ballard K, Ursu O, Bologa C J Biomed Inform
Least absolute shrinkage and selection operator type methods for the identification of serum biomarkers of overweight and obesity: simulation and application. (2016) Vasquez MM, Hu C, Roe DJ, Chen Z, Halonen M, Guerra S BMC Med Res Methodol
A Canonical Transforming Growth Factor Beta-Dependent Signaling Pathway is Present in Peripheral Blood Cells of Cancer Patients with Skeletal Metastasis (2013) Kadam S, Cleverly AL, Farmen M, Grondin J, Cox YI, Lahn M J Mol Biomark Diagn 2013, 4:3
Screening for New Biomarkers for Subcortical Vascular Dementia and Alzheimer?s Disease (2011) ?hrfelt A, Andreasson U, Simon A, Zetterberg H, Edman A, Potter W, Holder D, Devanarayan V, Seeburger J, Smith AD, Blennow K, Wallin A Dement Geriatr Cogn Disord Extra 1: 31?42.
Dysregulated macrophage-inflammatory protein-2 expression drives illness in bacterial superinfection of influenza. (2010) Zavitz CC, Bauer CM, Gaschler GJ, Fraser KM, Strieter RM, Hogaboam CM, Stampfli MR J Immunol 184: 2001-2013.