- Discussion:
- parathyroid hormone is 84 aa petide made & secreted from chief cells in 4 parathyroid glands;
- parathyroid hormone (PTH) has been approved as an anabolic treatment for osteoporosis;
- all actions of PTH are either directly or indirectly involved w/ maintaining serum ionic Ca concetration (see Ca hemostatsis);
- it stimulates the differentiation of osteoclastic progenitor cells and effects bone resorption thru stimulation of osteoclasts (thru indirect mechanisms - not
direct receptor mediation);
- enhances synthesis of 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D, (increase GI absorption of Ca & renal reabsorption of calcium);
- over secretion may cause hypercalcemia and hyperparathyroidism;
- specific effects:
- bone:
- indirectly increases the number of osteoclasts;
- osteoblast-mediated new bone formation are enhanced in response to intermittent PTH treatment;
- increase the efflux of calcium and phosphorous from bone;
- gut: indirectly increase the intestinal Ca absorption (thru vit D);
- kidney:
- increases tubular reabsorption of Ca from kidney (increases c-AMP in proximal tubule);
- decreases in tubular reabsorption of phosphate which leads to significant phosphaturia (resulting in borderline hypophosphatemia);
- note that normal phosphorous reabsorption is about 85%
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