Two deliberate omissions, both about terms that do not exist rather than steps that are unclear. GO has no calcium-sensing receptor activity term: searching OLS go for 'calcium-sensing receptor activity' returns two calcium channel activities (GO:0005220 and GO:0005219) and nothing for the receptor, and 'extracellular calcium ion sensing' returns nothing at all, so the trigger sits on the generic GO:0004930 G protein-coupled receptor activity and the receptor identity is carried by the CASR gene binding (hgnc:1514) instead. And no transducer is bound. The calcium-sensing receptor does couple through Gq/11 and phospholipase C, but none of the abstracts cited here states that step, and binding GO terms for a chain no cited source names is the defect this module was written to avoid; the sensitisation node therefore carries no process term and says what the sources do say, which is that the drug raises the receptor's sensitivity to extracellular calcium. Whoever sources the coupling can add it. The module is grounded on two drugs, not one. Cinacalcet is the small molecule and etelcalcetide the intravenous peptide; PMID:29534286 is cited for the sensitisation step precisely because it states the mechanism for etelcalcetide and names the chief cell, so the module is not a cinacalcet module. Hypocalcaemia is modelled as a consequence arm rather than as an adverse-effect aside, because it is the same mechanism read at the organism scale: suppressing parathyroid hormone lowers serum calcium, and in the cited haemodialysis cohort two thirds of patients initiating cinacalcet became hypocalcaemic. That source also reports it was mostly asymptomatic and transient, which is quoted on the node so the arm is not read as a stronger safety claim than the source makes. The treatment block sets therapeutic_modality to SMALL_MOLECULE, which describes cinacalcet; the slot is single-valued and etelcalcetide is a peptide, so that value names the oral drug rather than the whole class. Parathyroid cell proliferation is not modelled. Calcimimetics are reported to affect parathyroid hyperplasia as well as secretion, but no abstract cited here establishes it, so there is no node for it. Five conformers are wired: CKD-Mineral_Bone_Disorder, Familial_Hypocalciuric_Hypercalcemia_1 and _2, Parathyroid_Gland_Carcinoma and Parathyroid_Hyperplasia. They span reduced renal handling, an inactivating receptor or G-protein variant, autonomous malignant tissue and autonomous hyperplastic tissue, which is what makes the module indication-independent. Two further entries name a calcimimetic and are deliberately not wired. Multiple_Endocrine_Neoplasia_Type_1 has no calcimimetic treatment to wire: the drug is named only inside a parathyroidectomy treatment, which binds no agent of its own. Autosomal_Recessive_Hypophosphatemic_Rickets_1 records a single adjunctive course in one adult that was stopped because higher doses were not tolerated, and the entry says explicitly that it does not establish routine efficacy; wiring it would present an abandoned single-patient trial as a therapeutic mechanism of that disease. The autosomal dominant hypocalcaemia entries are NOT conformers and must not be wired here: they are caused by activating receptor variants, so a calcimimetic is the wrong direction of action and those entries mention it as a thing to avoid. A calcilytic module, if one is ever written, is where they would belong.
Calcimimetic Occupancy of the Parathyroid Calcium-Sensing Receptor
trigger
A calcimimetic occupies an allosteric site on the calcium-sensing receptor of the parathyroid chief cell. The receptor is a G protein-coupled receptor whose physiological ligand is an inorganic ion rather than a molecule, which is why the drugs act allosterically rather than at the orthosteric site.
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Increased Receptor Sensitivity to Extracellular Calcium
Allosteric occupancy raises the receptor's responsiveness to the extracellular calcium already present, rather than supplying an agonist of its own. This is what makes the class modulators rather than agonists.
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"The extracellular calcium receptor (CaR) is a G protein-coupled receptor (GPCR) and the pivotal molecule regulating systemic Ca2+ homeostasis"
Establishes that the receptor this node binds is a G protein-coupled receptor, which is what the generic GO:0004930 binding asserts.
"Calcimimetics are agonists or positive allosteric modulators of the CaR"
Names the drug class and the direction of action this module is scoped to, and distinguishes it from the calcilytics the same review covers.
Suppression of Parathyroid Hormone Secretion
central effector
The chief cell releases less parathyroid hormone. This is the key conformance target: it is the rate-limiting step every conformer funnels through, whatever made the hormone excessive in the first place.
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Lowered Circulating Parathyroid Hormone, Calcium and Phosphate
Less hormone secreted means less in the circulation, and the calcium and phosphate it mobilises fall with it.
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"thereby decreasing secretion of parathyroid hormone (PTH) by chief cells"
Names the suppressed secretion and the cell that performs it, which is exactly this node.
"Cinacalcet can also suppress PTH secretion due to parathyroid carcinoma in the same way as it does for parathyroid hyperplasia in the uremic condition"
Supports this node being the indication-independent step: the same suppression is reported for autonomous carcinoma and for uraemic hyperplasia, which is why conformers span both.
Lowered Circulating Parathyroid Hormone, Calcium and Phosphate
consequence
Serum parathyroid hormone, calcium and phosphate all fall, and the high-turnover bone disease that excess parathyroid hormone drives improves with them.
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Hypocalcaemia
The same mechanism read one step too far: suppressing the hormone that defends serum calcium lowers serum calcium below the normal range in a large fraction of treated patients.
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"Treatment with cinacalcet lowered PTH and reduced bone turnover and tissue fibrosis among most dialysis patients with biochemical evidence of sHPT"
Randomised placebo-controlled trial measuring both the fall in hormone and the bone response this node describes.
Hypocalcaemia
consequence
Serum calcium falls below the normal range. In the cited European haemodialysis cohort two thirds of patients starting cinacalcet became hypocalcaemic within a year, and the same source reports it was mostly asymptomatic and transient, so this node is the dose-limiting edge of the mechanism rather than a claim about harm.
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"Of 905 normocalcemic patients initiating cinacalcet, 67% developed hypocalcemia within 12 months: 68% mild, 23% moderate, 9% severe."
Quantifies how often the suppression overshoots into frank hypocalcaemia in a real treated cohort, and how it is distributed by severity.
"Hypocalcemia was mostly asymptomatic, transient (with and without targeted intervention to correct it) and not associated with an increase in cardiovascular events or deaths"
The same cohort's finding on how the hypocalcaemia behaved, carried here so this node is read as the dose-limiting edge of the mechanism rather than as a claim about harm.