NDAINJECTIONINJECTABLE
Approved
Jul 1986
Lifecycle
LOE Approaching
Competitive Pressure
30/100
Mechanism of Action
agonist. Calcitonin salmon acts primarily on bone, but direct renal effects and actions on the gastrointestinal tract are also recognized. Calcitonin salmon appears to have actions essentially identical to calcitonins of mammalian origin, but its potency per mg is greater and it has a longer…
Pharmacologic Class:
Calcitonin
Indications (6)
symptomatic Paget's disease of bone in patients with moderate to severe disease characterized by polyostotic involvement with elevated serum alkaline phosphataseurinary hydroxyproline excretionpostmenopausal osteoporosis in women greater than 5 years postmenopausesymptomatic Paget's disease of bonehypercalcemia ()postmenopausal osteoporosis