Endocrine Abstracts

Introduction: Fibroblast growth factor (FGF)-23 is a peptid, released from bone tissue and osteogenic cells. Phosphatonins regulate phosphate homeostasis in some phosphate wasting disorders such as X-linked hypophosphatemia, otozomal dominant hypophosphatemic rickets, and tumor-induced osteomalacia.FGF-23 is a possible phosphatonin: it regulates phosphate homeostasis by PTH independent actions.Objective: In the present study, we ai...