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Calcitonin gene-related peptide immunoreactivity in chronic human spinal cord injury
Study Design: Histopathological study of the human spinal cord.
Predictive Value of Serum Calcitonin Levels for Preoperative Diagnosis of Medullary Thyroid Carcinoma in a Cohort of 5817 Consecutive Patients with Thyroid Nodules
Context: Routine serum calcitonin (CT) measurement in patients with thyroid nodules for diagnosis of medullary thyroid carcinoma (MTC) is controversial.
Expression of calcitonin receptor-like receptor in human vascular tumours
Background: Vascular tumours such as Kaposi’s sarcoma and capillary haemangioma are characterised by abnormal vascularisation and proliferation of endothelial cells or neoplastic cells. Adrenomedullin, a potent vasodilative...
Heterophilic antibodies causing falsely high serum calcitonin values
Heterophilic antibodies (HA) may interfere in some immunoassays, causing falsely high hormone values, of wich practitioners should be aware when measuring calcitonin (CT) used as tumor marker for medullary thyroid carcinoma...
Plasma changes of calcitonin gene-related peptide and substance P in patients with dialysis headache
Little is known of mechanism of dialysis headache (DH). As suggested for migraine, a role for neuropeptides has been investigated.