Calcitonin

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A case of spurious hypercalcitoninemia: a cautionary tale on the use of plasma calcitonin assays in the screening of patients with thyroid nodules for neoplasia. 
  • A low cartilage formation and repair endotype predicts radiographic progression of symptomatic knee osteoarthritis. 
  • A randomized controlled trial to compare the efficacy of cyclical parathyroid hormone versus cyclical parathyroid hormone and sequential calcitonin to improve bone mass in postmenopausal women with osteoporosis. 
  • An evaluation of several biochemical markers for bone formation and resorption in a protocol utilizing cyclical parathyroid hormone and calcitonin therapy for osteoporosis. 
  • Antiresorptive pharmacotherapy in older women: where the evidence-based medicine rubber meets the geriatrics road. 
  • Association of serum calcitonin with coronary artery disease in individuals with and without chronic kidney disease. 
  • Calcitonin driven v-Ha-ras induces multilineage pulmonary epithelial hyperplasias and neoplasms. 
  • Calcitonin elevation in small cell lung cancer without ectopic production. 
  • Calcitonin stimulates growth and maturation of embryonic chick pelvic cartilage in vitro. 
  • Calcitonin stimulates maturation of mammalian growth plate cartilage. 
  • Calcitonin stimulation of renal 25-hydroxyvitamin D-1 alpha-hydroxylase activity in hypophosphatemic mice. Evidence that the regulation of calcitriol production is not universally abnormal in X-linked hypophosphatemia. 
  • Central peptidergic control of gastric acid secretion. 
  • Change in serum procalcitonin (deltaPCT) predicts the clinical outcome of children admitted with febrile neutropenia. 
  • Changes in Serum Calcitonin Concentrations, Incidence of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma, and Impact of Routine Calcitonin Concentration Monitoring in the EXenatide Study of Cardiovascular Event Lowering (EXSCEL). 
  • Clinical relevance of procalcitonin and C-reactive protein as infection markers in renal impairment: a cross-sectional study. 
  • Comparing the prognostic performance of ASSIST to interleukin-6 and procalcitonin in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock. 
  • Discriminative value of inflammatory biomarkers for suspected sepsis. 
  • Early diagnosis and treatment of medullary thyroid carcinoma. 
  • Effect of CGRP antagonist, alpha-CGRP 8-37, on acid secretion in the dog. 
  • Familial medullary thyroid carcinoma without associated endocrinopathies: a distinct clinical entity. 
  • High throughput, cell type-specific analysis of key proteins in human endometrial biopsies of women from fertile and infertile couples. 
  • Immunoreactivity to calcitonin gene-related peptide in the superior olivary complex and cochlea of cat and rat. 
  • Induction and spontaneous regression of pulmonary neuroendocrine cell hyperplasia in a hamster model. 
  • Influence of lemakalim on the pulmonary vascular bed of the cat. 
  • Interleukin 27 as a sepsis diagnostic biomarker in critically ill adults. 
  • Medullary thyroid cancer with RET V804M mutation: more indolent than expected? 
  • Moving toward prime time: host signatures for diagnosis of respiratory infections. 
  • Normal calcitonin stimulation of serum calcitriol in patients with X-linked hypophosphatemic rickets. 
  • Notch-1 regulates pulmonary neuroendocrine cell differentiation in cell lines and in transgenic mice. 
  • OA phenotypes, rather than disease stage, drive structural progression--identification of structural progressors from 2 phase III randomized clinical studies with symptomatic knee OA. 
  • Prevalence and predictors of osteoporosis treatment in nursing home residents with known osteoporosis or recent fracture. 
  • Procalcitonin-based indication of bacterial infection identifies high risk acute heart failure patients. 
  • Procalcitonin: The Right Answer but to Which Question? 
  • Prophylactic thyroidectomy in multiple endocrine neoplasia type 2A. 
  • Protein kinase A, cytosolic calcium, and phosphate uptake in human proximal renal cells. 
  • Regulation of calcium appetite in broiler chickens. 
  • Salmon calcitonin reduces vertebral bone loss in glucocorticoid-treated beagles. 
  • Serum gastrin, calcitonin, and prolactin as markers of multiple endocrine neoplasia syndromes in patients with primary hyperparathyroidism. 
  • Small cell lung carcinoma cell lines express mRNA for calcitonin and alpha- and beta-calcitonin gene related peptides. 
  • Suspension of medullary thick ascending limb tubules from the rabbit kidney. 
  • The effect of high-dose salmon calcitonin on bone mineral metabolism in the normal rat. 
  • The importance of early diagnosis in patients with hereditary medullary thyroid carcinoma. 
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  • Tsalik, Ephraim, Adjunct Associate Professor in the Department of Medicine, Medicine, Infectious Diseases