“…The presence of PTH, PTHrP, and their receptors in the same intestinal regions/cell lines, therefore, implicated the possibility of autocrine and paracrine actions of PTH and/or PTHrP (Li et al, 1995;Nemere & Larsson, 2002). Besides calciotropic action, PTH also plays an important role in regulating intestinal transport of other ions, such as phosphate and bicarbonate (Laohapitakworn, Thongbunchoo, Nakkrasae, Krishnamra, & Charoenphandhu, 2011;Nemere, 1996). By using perfused duodenal loop, PTH was found to stimulate phosphate absorption in the chick duodenum (Nemere, 1996), while an in vitro experiment in Caco-2 monolayer revealed that PTH rapidly and directly stimulated apical bicarbonate secretion through cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator in protein kinase A-and PI3K-dependent manner Laohapitakworn et al, 2011).…”