Severe hyperparathyroidism with bone abnormalities and metastatic calcification in rats with adenine-induced uraemia

Keiichi Tamagaki, Qunsheng Yuan, Hiroyuki Ohkawa, Ikuo Imazeki, Yoshiyuki Moriguchi, Nobuo Imai, Susumu Sasaki, Kazuo Takeda, Masafumi Fukagawa

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation · 2005 · 106 citations · 18 references

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Abstract

Uraemic rats made by adenine diet developed severe abnormalities of calcium metabolism in a relatively short period and therefore they may serve as a useful model for the analysis of parathyroid hyperplasia and vascular calcification in chronic renal failure.

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