Neuro-humoral Regulation of Parathyroid Glands
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Parathyroid hormone without parathyroid glands.
In mammals, PTH is a component in a complex signaling system involving three structurally related ligands and two G protein-coupled receptors, which share significant amino acid sequence homology (Fig. 1). PTH is a peptide hormone comprising 84 amino acids that is made by the parathyroid glands (and to a much smaller extend by the thymus) and acts through the PTH/PTH-related peptide (PTHrP) rec...
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عنوان ژورنال: Folia Endocrinologica Japonica
سال: 1963
ISSN: 0029-0661
DOI: 10.1507/endocrine1927.39.4_359