Calcitonin - Guardian of the mammalian skeleton or is it just a fish story?

Endocrinology

Volumn 147, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 4007-4009

  Miller, Scott ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CALCITONIN GENE RELATED PEPTIDE; PARATHYROID HORMONE;

BONE METABOLISM; BONE STRUCTURE; BONE TURNOVER; CALCIUM BLOOD LEVEL; ELECTROLYTE METABOLISM; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE METABOLISM; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; MAMMAL; MINERAL METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; OSTEOCLAST; OSTEOLYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SKELETON; ULTIMOBRANCHIAL BODY; WATER METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; BONE AND BONES; BONE DENSITY; BONE DISEASES, METABOLIC; CALCITONIN; CALCITONIN GENE-RELATED PEPTIDE; FEMALE; LACTATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MINERALS; PARATHYROID HORMONE; PREGNANCY;

EID: 33747602560     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2006-0599     Document Type: Short Survey

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