"Receptors, Calcitonin" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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Cell surface proteins that bind calcitonin and trigger intracellular changes which influence the behavior of cells. Calcitonin receptors outside the nervous system mediate the role of calcitonin in calcium homeostasis. The role of calcitonin receptors in the brain is not well understood.
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D018003
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D12.776.543.750.695.100 D12.776.543.750.750.200
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Multinucleated rat alveolar macrophages express functional receptors for calcitonin. Am J Physiol. 1991 Dec; 261(6 Pt 2):F1026-32.