Calcitonin
a. enhances the effect of parathyroid hormone on bone and kidneys.
b. is synthesized in the skin in the presence of sunlight.
c. deficiency produces diabetes insipidus.
d. is secreted by the thyroid follicular cells.
e. none of these answers.
E
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