Amino acid composition of salmon calcitonin
- 1 August 1969
- journal article
- Published by Canadian Science Publishing in Canadian Journal of Biochemistry
- Vol. 47 (8) , 823-825
- https://doi.org/10.1139/o69-128
Abstract
Calcitonin has been extracted from salmon ultimobranchial glands and purified. The amino acid composition indicates similarities to mammalian calcitonin but the salmon hormone has 25 times the biological activity of the most active mammalian material.Keywords
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