Developed by Northwestern Engineering’s Igor Efimov and George Washington University’s Luyao Lu, the implantable device uses ...

Calcimimetics suppress the secretion of parathyroid hormone by sensitizing the parathyroid calcium receptor to serum calcium. Cinacalcet (Sensipar ® /Mimpara ®, Amgen Inc., Thousand Oaks ...

The DHP receptor gene is almost identical to those that encode voltage-gated calcium channels. (You may know that dihydropyridines are widely used antihypertensive drugs that reduce blood pressure by ...

Diseases Resulting From Inhibiting Mutations of the Calcium-sensing Receptor To our knowledge, calcimimetics have not yet been tested in hereditary diseases characterized by inhibiting mutations ...