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parathyroid hormone [PTH]-related protein
Etiologic agent of hypercalcemia of malignancy. Often inappropriately secreted by:
1) tumors of epidermal origin
a) squamous cell carcinoma of the lung
b) squamous cell carcinoma of the cervix
2) renal cell carcinoma
Related
hypercalcemia of malignancy
parathyroid hormone related peptide in plasma
squamous cell carcinoma (SCC)
General
hormone
secreted peptide
Properties
SIZE: entity length = 141 aa
COMPARTMENT: extracellular compartment
SECRETED-BY: EPITHELIAL-GLAND
Database Correlations
OMIM 168470
UniProt P12272
References
- PROSITE :accession PS00335
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 11, American
College of Physicians, Philadelphia 1998