Responses of frog skin, Rana pipiens, calcium ion transport to parathyroid hormone, calcitonin, and vitamin D3

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 112, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 191-199

  Stiffler, Daniel F ^a   Yee, J Christopher ^a   Denise Tefft, J ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

CT; Permissive effect of vitamin D3; PTH

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CALCIUM ION; COLECALCIFEROL; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CALCIUM METABOLISM; CALCIUM TRANSPORT; FROG; HYPOCALCEMIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; SKIN;

EID: 0031769944     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1998.7161     Document Type: Article

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