- See:
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Hypercalcemia:
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Hypocalcemia:
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State of Calcium in Body Fluides
- Discussion:
- calcium salts make up major inorganic component of our skeletons;
- calcium phosphates (secondary & tertiary) form basis of internal skeleton, &
their ions circulate freely in controlled amounts w/ in our body fluids;
- it is compatibility of these two phases (solid versus liquid) that
makes the story of bone physiology intricate and interesting one;
- least soluble of these salts is tertiary calcium phosphate, Ca3(PO4)2;
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Calcium flux and endogenous calcium content in isolated mammalian
growth-plate chondrocytes, hyaline-cartilage chondrocytes, and
hepatocytes.
