Historical reflections and the future.
This meeting has excitingly described the modern status of skeletal biology. Many advances are described in detail but it may be of value to describe the original discovery of two iconic osteoclast regulators, calcitonin and PTH, whose development in the 1960s initiated the revolution in the field.
MacIntyre
Iain
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William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London, Queen Mary University of London, Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6BQ. hhw046@mac.com
D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000502:physiology*; D002116:Calcitonin / Q000378:metabolism; D002460:Cell Line; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation; D006801:Humans; D008954:Models, Biological; D010006:Osteoblasts / Q000378:metabolism*; D010010:Osteoclasts / Q000378:metabolism; D010281:Parathyroid Hormone / Q000378:metabolism
D010281:Parathyroid Hormone; D002116:Calcitonin