Studies on humoral hypercalcemia of malignancy have shown that tumors produce a protein that acts through the parathyroid hormone (PTH) receptor but is immunologically distinct from PTH. We have recently purified and cloned a parathyroid hormone-related protein (PTHrP) from a human lung cancer cell
The management of hypercalcemia of malignancy
โ Scribed by Harold A. Harvey
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag
- Year
- 1995
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 648 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0941-4355
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