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The extracellular calcium-sensing receptor: its role in health and disease.
Annual review of medicine - 1 Jan 1998
Brown E M, Pollak M, Hebert S C
Abstract excerpt
The recent cloning of an extracellular calcium (Ca2+o)-sensing receptor (CaR) from parathyroid, kidney and other cell types has clarified the mechanisms through which Ca2+o exerts its direct actions on various cells and tissues. In the parathyroid, the CaR mediates the inhibitory effects of Ca2+o on parathyroid hormone (PTH) secretion and likely on expression of the PTH gene and parathyroid cellular...
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