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Int J Endocrinol. 2020 Sep 10;2020:3236828. doi: 10.1155/2020/3236828. eCollection 2020.

Calcitonin and Bone Physiology: In Vitro, In Vivo, and Clinical Investigations.

International journal of endocrinology

Jingbo Xie, Jian Guo, Zaeema Kanwal, Mingzheng Wu, Xiangyang Lv, Nihal Abdalla Ibrahim, Ping Li, Manal Ali Buabeid, El-Shaimaa A Arafa, Qingshan Sun

Affiliations

  1. Department of Orthopedics, Fengcheng People's Hospital, Fengcheng, Jiangxi 331100, China.
  2. Department of the Second Orthopedics, Hongdu Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine Affiliated to Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Nanchang Hongdu Traditional Chinese Medicine Hospital, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330008, China.
  3. Ameer Ud Din Medical College, Lahore, Pakistan.
  4. Department of Orthopaedics, Pu'ai Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, Hubei 430000, China.
  5. Department of Orthopaedics, Xi'an International Medical Center Hospital, Xi'an, Shaanxi 710100, China.
  6. Department of Clinical Sciences, Ajman University, Ajman 346, UAE.
  7. Department of Orthopaedics, Ya'an People's Hospital, Ya'an, Sichuan 625000, China.
  8. Department of Orthopedics, The Third Hospital of Shandong Province, Jinan, Shandong 250031, China.

PMID: 32963524 PMCID: PMC7501564 DOI: 10.1155/2020/3236828

Abstract

Calcitonin was discovered as a peptide hormone that was known to reduce the calcium levels in the systemic circulation. This hypocalcemic effect is produced due to multiple reasons such as inhibition of bone resorption or suppression of calcium release from the bone. Thus, calcitonin was said as a primary regulator of the bone resorption process. This is the reason why calcitonin has been used widely in clinics for the treatment of bone disorders such as osteoporosis, hypercalcemia, and Paget's disease. However, presently calcitonin usage is declined due to the development of efficacious formulations of new drugs. Calcitonin gene-related peptides and several other peptides such as intermedin, amylin, and adrenomedullin (ADM) are categorized in calcitonin family. These peptides are known for the structural similarity with calcitonin. Aside from having a similar structure, these peptides have few overlapping biological activities and signal transduction action through related receptors. However, several other activities are also present that are peptide specific.

Copyright © 2020 Jingbo Xie et al.

Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare that there are no conflicts of interest in our manuscript.

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