scholarly journals Effects of salmon calcitonin treatment on serum and synovial fluid bone formation and resorption markers in osteoporosis patients

Author(s):  
Hasan Atbinici
2006 ◽  
Vol 00 (02) ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold N Rosen

There are many different treatment options for osteoporosis available to physicians. Most of these are designed to prevent and treat osteoporosis by inhibiting bone resorption and/or increasing bone formation. One group of patients with very specific needs is those with vertebral compression fractures especially in those whom the most commonly used treatment, bisphosphonate, is not well tolerated. Under these circumstances salmon calcitonin, a treatment that has known efficacy in reducing further vertebral fracture, an analgesic effect, and is known to be safe and well tolerated in older individuals, could be the answer.Salmon calcitonin is the most widely used of the calcitonins effective in humans. It has 40 times the affinity for osteoclasts as human calcitonin and is very effective at inhibiting bone resorption.1,2


Bone ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 12 (5) ◽  
pp. 311-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
O. Tørring ◽  
E. Bucht ◽  
U. Sjöstedt ◽  
H.E. Sjöberg

Bone ◽  
1988 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-51 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Blomqvist ◽  
I. Elomaa ◽  
L. Porkka ◽  
S.L. Karonen ◽  
C. Lamberg-Allardt

BMJ ◽  
1975 ◽  
Vol 2 (5973) ◽  
pp. 726-726 ◽  
Author(s):  
P M Grimaldi ◽  
S M Mohamedally ◽  
N J Woodhouse

1989 ◽  
Vol 67 (5) ◽  
pp. 1335-1337 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ajai K. Srivastav ◽  
Ladli Rani

The effects of administration of salmon calcitonin (0.25 Medical Research Council mU/g body wt.) on serum calcium and inorganic phosphate levels were investigated in Sinonatrix piscator for 15 days. The treatment evoked progressive hypocalcemia (from day 1 to day 5) and hypophosphatemia (from day 1 to day 3). Thereafter, these responses decreased and normal levels were regained.


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