For patients with refractory hypercalcemia, additional therapies such as calcitonin and glucocorticoids ... concentration greater than 10.5 mg/dL. Parathyroid hormone-related peptide (PTHrP ...

USPSTF said with "moderate certainty" that screening for osteoporosis to prevent osteoporotic fractures has a moderate net ...

"At the same time, PTH signals the kidneys to release less calcium in the urine." "When the body has enough calcium, a different hormone called calcitonin works to do the opposite: it lowers ...

The purpose of this review is to describe the available evidence for osteoporosis treatments in young and premenopausal women. A review of articles evaluating the treatment or prevention of ...

PTH raises intestinal calcium resorption indirectly by alpha-1-hydroxylation of 25-OH-Vit D, with increased intestinal absorption of calcium through transient receptor potential vanilloid 6 (TRPV6) ...

Hormones are small molecules or peptides that act in signalling between one cell or cell set and another. They are generally involved in high-level processes of an organism such as growth ...

Centre for Engineering Biology, Institute of Quantitative Biology, Biochemistry and Biotechnology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh EH9 3FF, U.K. Centre for ...

Correspondence to Dr Ben Christopher Reynolds, Department of Paediatric Nephrology, Great North Children's Hospital, Victoria Road, Newcastle-upon-Tyne NE1 4LP, UK; pinkdoc{at}doctors.org.uk Disorders ...