“…The C cells are distributed unevenly as in the dog [Kameda, 1968], rabbit, mice and cat [Kameda, 1971b], human [McMil lan et al, 1974], mongoose [Swarup and Das, 1976], opossum [Fortney, 1978], jackal [Tewari and Swarup, 1979], house shrew and mouse [Wechbanjong et al, 1979], Pento [1978], however, has reported a uniform calcitonin activity in the thyroid gland of the cow indi cating an uniform distribution of C cells.…”