Estimates of circulating monomeric calcitonin: physiological studies in normal and thyroidectomized man

The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism
J J Body, H Heath

Abstract

To avoid the limitations of present human calcitonin (hCT) assays, we have developed a silica extraction and concentration method for plasma hCT that lowers the detection limit of the assay 40-fold (to 0.5-1.0 pg/ml), and markedly improves specificity of the assay for the CT monomer (hCT-M). Extraction recoveries of radioiodinated and unlabeled synthetic hCT-M added to 20 ml plasma were, respectively, 90 +/- 1% and 99 +/- 4% (mean +/- SE). Gel filtration chromatography of plasma from patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma demonstrated that the extract was markedly enriched in hCT-M. Basal plasma immunoreactive hCT was measured before (iCT) and after extraction (exCT) in 60 normal individuals; basal exCT levels were higher in young men than in young women [8.0 +/- 0.8 (+/- SE) vs. 4.6 +/- 0.5 pg/ml; P less than 0.001] and higher in elderly men than in elderly women (9.4 +/- 0.8 vs. 4.7 +/- 0.6 pg/ml; P less than 0.05), but not different with age. Calcium infusions (2 mg Ca/kg over 5 min) in 36 subjects showed a significantly greater secretory capacity for exCT in men than in women, but showed no decline of exCT response with age. There was no correlation between basal iCT and exCT concentrations, but there was a good correlat...Continue Reading

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