You've likely heard about Vitamin D's important role in maintaining strong bones and teeth. But it also plays several other important roles to keep your body healthy - including the function of your ...

to calcium is increased such that the receptor 'senses' low calcium levels to be normal. This effect is clearly beneficial for the parathyroid glands, but the same is not true for the kidneys ...

These receptors act like docking stations for vitamin D to bind to and trigger effects in the skin, intestine, bone, parathyroid gland, immune system and pancreas, among others. Vitamin D ...

Vitamin D receptors are present in several organs which serve as docking stations for the vitamin and allows it to exert its effects on the skin, intestines, bones, parathyroid gland, immune ...

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