Bone & Mineral Metabolism

Basic science developments (receptors, channels, signaling mechanisms, immune mechanisms, apoptosis)
Drugs affecting bone and mineral metabolism
Extra-skeletal calcification and ossification
Genetic and developmental disorders and mouse models
Hypercalcemia not mediated by parathyroid hormone (i.e. due to tumoral factors)
Hyperparathyroidism (primary, secondary and tertiary)
Hypoparathyroid disorders (incl. pseudohypoparathyroid and other disorders of low parathyroid or PTH-resistance states)
Osteoporosis
Other disorders of mineral homeostasis (calcium, phosphorus, magnesium, etc.)
Other metabolic bone disorders (osteomalacia, vitamin D deficiency and resistance, oncogenous osteomalacia, etc.)
Paget's disease
Renal osteodystrophy
Renal tubular disorders, hypercalciuria and kidney stones
Skeletal dysplasias (osteogenesis imperfecta, fibrous dysplasia, osteopetrosis)