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What hormone does the parathyroid gland secrete?

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The parathyroid gland secretes the hormone parathormone or parathyroid hormone (PTH).
The function of PTH is to increase the concentration of calcium in the blood. It does this in three ways:

increasing the release of calcium from the bones
increasing the reabsorption of calcium from the kidney tubules
increasing the absorption of calcium from the intestine

PTH is a polypeptide hormone, made up of 84 amino acids.

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