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AMYLIN Part of “CHAPTER 53 – CALCITONIN GENE FAMILY OF PEPTIDES“ Amylin was first isolated from amyloid deposits in an insulinoma, but it is also found in the amyloid of…

CALCITONIN GENE–RELATED PEPTIDES Part of “CHAPTER 53 – CALCITONIN GENE FAMILY OF PEPTIDES“ ALTERNATIVE GENE EXPRESSION The CALC-I gene gives rise to more than one bioactive peptide: CT and CGRP….

PROCALCITONIN AND ITS DERIVATIVE PEPTIDES Part of “CHAPTER 53 – CALCITONIN GENE FAMILY OF PEPTIDES“ The CALC-I gene encodes the information for the structure of the polypeptide precursor of CT,…

CALCITONIN Part of “CHAPTER 53 – CALCITONIN GENE FAMILY OF PEPTIDES“ For reasons that are elucidated later, the following discussion distinguishes between CT and its precursor peptides (CTpr), which have…

CALCITONIN GENE FAMILY OF PEPTIDES Kenneth L. Becker Beat Müller Eric S. Nylén Régis Cohen Omega L. Silva Jon C. White Richard H. Snider JR. The calcitonin gene family consists…

ROLE OF PARATHYROID HORMONE RELATED PROTEIN IN PHYSIOLOGY Part of “CHAPTER 52 – PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN“ Unlike PTH, whose expression is highly specific to the parathyroid glands, PTHrP is expressed…

USE OF PARATHYROID HORMONE RELATED PROTEIN ASSAYS IN THE DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS OF HYPERCALCEMIA Part of “CHAPTER 52 – PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN“

PATHOGENETIC ROLE OF PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN Part of “CHAPTER 52 – PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN“ Patients with humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy as well as normal persons infused with aminoterminal fragments of…

ROLE OF PARATHYROID HORMONE- RELATED PROTEIN IN HYPERCALCEMIA Part of “CHAPTER 52 – PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN“ TUMORS SECRETING PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN The clinical manifestations of hypercalcemia in malignancy are discussed…

STRUCTURE AND BIOLOGIC PROPERTIES Part of “CHAPTER 52 – PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN“ STRUCTURE AND PROCESSING OF PARATHYROID HORMONE-RELATED PROTEIN AND ITS GENE PTHrP is a protein of 139 to 173…