Method of screening for calcium receptor-active molecules

摘要

Method and composition useful for treating a patient having a disease characterized by an abnormal level of one or more components, the activity of which is regulated or affected by activity of one or more inorganic-ion receptor. Novel compounds useful in these methods and compositions are also provided. The method includes administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of a molecule active at one or more inorganic-ion receptors as an agent or antagonist. Preferably, the molecule is able to act as either a selective agonist or antagonist at a Ca<2+> receptor of one or more but not all cells chosen from the group consisting of parathyroid cells, bone osteoclasts, juxtaglomerular kidney cells, proximal tubule kidney cells, distal tubule kidney cell, cell of the thick ascending limb of Henle's loop and/or collecting duct, keratinocyte in the epidermis, parafollicular cell in the thyroid (C-cells), intestinal cell, trophoblast in the placenta, platelet, vascular smooth muscle cell, cardiac atrial cell, gastrin and glucagon secreting cells, kidney mesangial cell and mammary cell.