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The role of fetal parathyroid hormone-related protein in transplacental calcium transport.
Journal of molecular endocrinology - 1 Oct 1996
Tucci J, Hammond V, Senior P V, Gibson A, Beck F
Abstract excerpt
During pregnancy, a placental calcium pump maintains the fetus in a hypercalcaemic state relative to the mother, a condition which has been thought to facilitate normal development of the fetal skeleton. Based on experiments performed in the sheep, parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) has...
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