Article
Vitamin D and the parathyroid.
The American journal of the medical sciences - 1 Jun 1999
Beckerman P, Silver J
Abstract excerpt
Vitamin D's biologically active metabolite, 1,25(OH)2D3, has important effects upon the parathyroid cell that are relevant to both the physiology of mineral metabolism and the regulation of the secondary hyperparathyroidism of chronic renal failure. 1,25(OH)2D3 markedly decreases parathyroid hormone (PTH) gene transcription and thus PTH synthesis and secretion. It also acts to decrease parathyroid cell...
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