Exempel på parathyroid gland

• A single, 2 mm hypoplastic parathyroid gland was identified microscopically in the thyroid gland capsule.

• Tests revealed that she had hyperparathyroidism, a rare disease in which a defective parathyroid gland allows dangerously high calcium levels (hypercalcaemia).

• It experiences especially high expression in the parathyroid gland.

• Parathyroid hormone is a protein made by the parathyroid gland under the control of serum calcium activity.

• This is dependent on several histologic features within the abnormal parathyroid gland itself.

• The calcium test can indicate or monitor bone diseases or diseases of the parathyroid gland or kidneys.

• The third pharyngeal pouch will give rise to the inferior parathyroid gland and thymus.

• Often, these localizing tests used to find the bad parathyroid gland are not successful in locating which parathyroid gland has become a tumor.

• The parathyroid chief cell is the primary cell of the parathyroid gland.

• This binding will increase the sensitivity of calcium-sensing receptors on the parathyroid gland.

• In extreme cases of primary hyperparathyroidism, removal of the parathyroid gland after surgical neck exploration is the only way to avoid death.

• Calcium-sensing membrane receptors in the parathyroid gland monitor calcium levels in the extracellular fluid.

• In the event the blood supply to any one of the parathyroid glands is endangered through surgery, the parathyroid gland(s) involved may be re-implanted in surrounding muscle tissue.

• However, the remaining parathyroid glands may take hours to several weeks to return to their normal functioning levels.

• Prior to this surgery, patients with removed parathyroid glands typically died from muscular tetani.