However, since the discovery of thyrocalcitonin by Hirsch, Gauthier and Munson, clinicians and pathologists have looked in vain for diseases caused by excessive or deficient secretion of this ...

A medullary carcinoma of the thyroid gland was examined by electron microscopy, histochemistry and bioassay for thyrocalcitonin. Numerous secretory granules were present in the cytoplasm of the ...