Assertion: calcitonin | /r/CapableOf | lower blood calcium levels
Facets:
value: by suppressing osteoclast activity
type: MANNER
value: by preventing bone-resorbing osteoclasts
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: Calcitonin lowers blood calcium levels by suppressing osteoclast activity in the bones and increasing the amount of calcium excreted in the urine.
text: parathyroid gland, (increases blood calcium by moving it from the bone into the blood) calcitonin inhibits PTH and lowers blood calcium level
text: Calcitonin lowers blood calcium levels by preventing bone-resorbing osteoclasts (bone cells) that release calcium from bones into the blood and by increasing calcium loss through the urine.
text: Calcitonin lowers blood calcium levels by suppressing osteoclast activity in the bones and increasing the amount of calcium excreted in the urine.
text: Patients who have had their thyroid gland surgically removed (as for thyroid cancer) are not hypercalcemic, as one might expect them to be if calcitonin were needed to lower blood calcium levels.