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Sequence and expression of the chicken calcitonin gene
S Minvielle1, M Cressent, M C Delehaye
1U 113 INSERM, CHU St. Antoine, Paris, France.
FEBS Letters
|October 19, 1987
Abstract:
The avian calcitonin gene was isolated and sequenced; two mRNAs are expressed by tissue-specific alternate splicing. The peptides encoded by the mRNAs are the protein precursors of either calcitonin or calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). Calcitonin is expressed predominantly in ultimobranchial bodies and CGRP in brain.