Research on bone research reported by scientists at University of Otago.

"Unlike the cardiac circulating hormones, atrial natriuretic peptide (ANP) and B-type natriuretic peptide (BNP), C-type natriuretic peptide (CNP) appears to be largely tissue-based and circulates at concentrations considered insufficient to affect organ function. Consistent with CNP's crucial role in regulating skeletal growth, serial studies in juveniles show that both plasma CNP and aminoterminal proCNP (NTproCNP) are highly correlated with growth velocity raising the possibility that skeletal tissues contribute to circulating concentrations of CNP forms during the growing period," investigators in Christchurch, New Zealand report (see also Bone Research).

"Hypothesizing …