1. Increased Serum Gastrin Concentration in Hemodialysis Patients Treated with 1-Alpha-Hydroxy Vitamin D3
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O. Brandsborg, M. Brandsborg, C. K. Christensen, and H. E. Nielsen
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Vitamin ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Increased serum gastrin ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Gastroenterology ,Alpha (ethology) ,chemistry.chemical_element ,Calcium ,chemistry.chemical_compound ,Endocrinology ,chemistry ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Vitamin D and neurology ,Hemodialysis ,business ,Cholecalciferol ,hormones, hormone substitutes, and hormone antagonists ,Gastrin - Abstract
Serum gastrin and serum calcium concentrations were measured in 9 hemodialysis patients treated with 1-alpha-hydroxy vitamin D3 and in 15 control patients. Serum calcium and serum gastrin concentrations were significantly increased after 1 and after 5 months of treatment with 1-alpha-hydroxy vitamin D3. It is concluded that serum gastrin concentration is sensitive to a rise in calcium concentration within physiological range in patients with chronic renal failure.
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- 1977
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