Word: parathyroids
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...Bartter team started with two known facts. Parathyroid hormone, secreted by the thyroid's tiny satellite glands, directs the removal of calcium from bone and its release into the blood. One of the thyroid's own hormones, thyrocalcitonin, controls the converse-the transfer of calcium from blood to bone. These two hormones balance each other in normal metabolism by an exquisitely delicate feedback mechanism. Too little calcium in the blood signals the parathyroids to take some out of the bones and put it into circulation; a sufficiency of calcium in the blood induces a stop order from...
From the chloroquine family of chemicals, Dr. Craig moved on to the penicillins, which were being produced under a wartime crash program. He has since turned to bacitracin (another anti-biotic), fatty acids, the master hormones of the pituitary gland, the hormones of the parathyroid, and insulin...
...glands, and organs such as liver and kidneys) into human beings to correct dwarfism, tetany,* and other disorders resulting from underactive glands. But in 1931 he was confronted with a woman dying of tetany and too weak for the operation. So Niehans injected a mass of cells from the parathyroid gland of a freshly slaughtered calf...
...Muscular spasms, often caused by defective parathyroid glands...
...Parathyroid glands...