Teriparatide acetate

The anabolic drug teriparatide acetate (TA), known as recombinant human parathyroid hormone 1–34, which directly promotes bone formation by generating new osteocytes, has been introduced as a novel therapeutic agent for osteoporosis. Distinct from antiresorptive drug treatment, patients with osteonecrosis of the jaw showed successful clinical outcomes after weekly administration of TA. In addition, adverse outcomes of long-term bisphosphonate treatment, such as bone fracture, were healed after usage of TA, and better bone mass and mineral density improvements at the lumbar spine and femoral neck were achieved with TA treatment than with bisphosphonate treatment[1]