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Calcium in Human Health

Calcium performs diverse biological functions in the human body and is a micronutrient essential to human health and well-being. It serves as a second messenger for nearly every biological process, stabilizes many proteins, and in deficient amounts is associated with a large number diseases and diso...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Weaver, Connie M. (Editor ), Heaney, Robert P. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Totowa, NJ : Humana Press : Imprint: Humana, 2006.
Edición:1st ed. 2006.
Colección:Nutrition and Health,
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Calcium Functions
  • Bone as the Calcium Nutrient Reserve
  • Cellular Functions and Fluxes of Calcium
  • Techniques for Studying Calcium Metabolism and Its Relationship to Disease
  • Nutritional Epidemiology
  • Clinical Approaches for Studying Calcium Metabolism and Its Relationship to Disease
  • Kinetic Studies
  • Calcium Consumption, Requirements, and Bioavailability
  • Requirements for What Endpoint?
  • Dietary Calcium
  • Food Sources, Supplements, and Bioavailability
  • Calcium Homeostasis
  • The Calcium Economy
  • Molecular Regulation of Calcium Metabolism
  • Influence of Total Diet on Calcium Homeostasis
  • Influence of Lifestyle Choices on Calcium Homeostasis
  • Influence of Physical Activity on Calcium and Bone
  • The Case for a Calcium Appetite in Humans
  • Calicium Through Development
  • Infancy and Childhood
  • Prepuberty and Adolescence
  • Calcium in Pregnancy and Lactation
  • Calcium and Disease
  • Calcium in Systemic Human Health
  • Calcium and Oral Health
  • Dietary Calcium and Obesity
  • Polycystic Ovary Syndrome and Reproduction
  • Premenstrual Syndrome
  • Calcium Throughout the Life Cycle
  • Calcium, Vitamin D, and Cancer
  • Dietary Calcium and the Metabolic Syndrome
  • Calcium and Phosphate Control in Patients With Renal Disease
  • Hypertension and Cardiovascular Disease.