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. 2002 Dec;110(12):1769-71.
doi: 10.1172/JCI17425.

Calcitonin and bone formation: a knockout full of surprises

Mone Zaidi  1 , Baljit S Moonga, Etsuko Abe
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Calcitonin and bone formation: a knockout full of surprises

Mone Zaidi et al. J Clin Invest. 2002 Dec.
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Radiographic analysis of the vertebrae of 3-month-old female wild-type and CT/CGRP–deficient mice (1).
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