Serum osteocalcin was measured in patients with idiopathic hypoparathyroidism or pseudohypoparathyroidism, before or during the treatment with active vitamin D3 (1,25(OH)2D3 or lcaOHD3).Serum osteocalcin and plasma 1,25(OH)2D were decreased in 11 patients with idiopathic hypoparathyroidism before treatment (2.8±1.27 ng/ml, P < 0.001 and 14.3±4.27 pg/ml, P <0.001, respectively). In 24 patients with idiopathic hypoparathyroidism during the treatment, serum osteocalcin and plasma 1,25(OH)2D were within the normal range (4.5+0.74 ng/ml and 25.7±5.69 pg/ml, respectively).In five patients with pseudohypoparathyroidism before treatment, plasma 1,25(OH)2D was decreased (15.6±10.6 pg/ml, P < 0.001) but serum osteocalcin was normal (7.8±1.6 ng/ml). In nine patients with pseudohypoparathyroidism during the treatment with active vitamin D3, serum osteocalcin and plasma 1,25(0H)21) H3ere iormal (6.8±1.47 ng/ml and 27.2±6.0 pg/ml, respectively). Serum P'I in pseudohypoparathyroidism was increased before treatment (0.70±0.34 ng/ml? P < 0.05) and was normal during the treatment (0.50±0.13 ng/ml).In idiopathic hypoparathyroidism, the active vitamin D3 increased serum osteocalcin without PTH. In pseudohypoparathyroidism, PT1I may increase serum osteocalcin or modulate the effect of active vitamin D3 on serum osteocalcin.