GH response to growth hormone releasing hormone and hypoglycaemia is unaltered by high endogenous plasma calcitonin levels in patients with medullary thyroid carcinoma

Abstract

We conclude that calcitonin does not alter the pituitary response to GHRH in medullary thyroid carcinoma and is unlikely to play an important role in regulating growth hormone secretion because calcitonin did not modify the release of growth hormone after insulin-induced hypoglycaemia.