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The extraction of a parathyroid hormone which will prevent or control parathyroid tetany and which regulates the level of blood calcium.

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J. biol. Chem., 63, 395-438. 1925 CE.

Isolation of parathormone, the active principle of the parathyroids.

Collip’s “parathormone”. He showed that it raises the calcium level in para-thyroidectomized dogs.

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