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Journal of Internal Medicine. 2006 May
Calcium and vitamin D in the prevention and treatment of osteoporosis – a clinical update
Combined calcium and vitamin D supplementation is an essential component of the management of osteoporosis, supported by a strong scientific rationale. The types of individuals who should receive calcium and vitamin D supplements are those: (i) patients with documented osteoporosis receiving antiresorptive or anabolic treatment; (ii) patients receiving glucocorticoids; and (iii) individuals with or at…
Journal of Biological Chemistry. 2014 Apr
The plasma membrane calcium pump: new ways to look at an old enzyme.
The three-dimensional structure of the PMCA pump has not been solved, but its basic mechanistic properties are known to repeat those of the other Ca(2+) pumps. However, the pump also has unique properties. They concern essentially its numerous regulatory mechanisms, the most important of which is the autoinhibition by its C-terminal tail. Other regulatory mechanisms…
Food Addit Contam Part A Chem Anal Control Expo Risk Assess. 2019 Mar
Traditional materials from new sources – conflicts in analytical methods for calcium carbonate.
Calcium carbonate (E170) is a common food and pharmaceutical additive/ingredient. In addition to a source of calcium, the carbonate has uses including as a colour, acidity regulator and bulking agent. Globally, a range of regulatory agencies and pharmacopoeia control the analyses and specification of additives in food, supplements, pharmaceutical substances and excipients. Accordingly, a range…
Bioresource Technology. 2013 Sep
High-level production of calcium malate from glucose by Penicillium sclerotiorum K302.
In this study, after screening of 9 fungal strains for their ability to produce calcium malate, it was found that Penicillium sclerotiorum K302 among them could produce high-level of calcium malate. Under the optimal conditions, the titer of calcium malate in the supernatant was 88.6 g/l at flask level. During 10-l fermentation, the titer of…
Journal of Dairy Science. 2019 Jan
Calcium lactate as an attractive compound to partly replace salt in blue-veined cheese.
In addition to their high sodium content, cheeses are thought to induce an acid load to the body, which is associated with deleterious effects on consumers’ health. Our objective was to explore the use of alkalinizing salts in partial substitution of NaCl to reduce both the sodium content and the acid-forming potential of cheese, without…
Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology. 2015 Jan
Anti-inflammatory effects of calcium citrate in RAW 264.7cells via suppression of NF-κB activation.
Here we aimed to investigate the anti-inflammatory effects of calcium citrate in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-stimulated RAW 264.7 macrophages. The anti-inflammatory effects of calcium citrate were investigated by assessing pro-inflammatory factors (NO, ROS, NF-κB, iNOS, and COX-2) and pro-inflammatory cytokines (IL-1β, IL-6, and TNF-α). Treatment of cells with calcium citrate (10-100μM) significantly reduced the generation of intracellular…
Bioengineered. 2016 Sep
Preparation and properties of calcium citrate nanosheets for bone graft substitute.
A convenient and effective soft chemical method is presented for the synthesis of nano-scaled calcium citrate sheets. The preparation involved the precipitation of nano-calcium citrate by adding ethanol to reach the super saturation state of a solution containing calcium and citrate salts. The obtained nano-calcium citrate formed nanosheets, with the following dimensions: width of about…
Journal of Food and Drug Analysis. 2018 Jan
Codissolution of calcium hydrogenphosphate and sodium hydrogencitrate in water. Spontaneous supersaturation of calcium citrate increasing calcium bioavailability.
The sparingly soluble calcium hydrogenphosphate dihydrate, co-dissolving in water during dissolution of freely soluble sodium hydrogencitrate sesquihydrate as caused by proton transfer from hydrogencitrate to hydrogenphosphate, was found to form homogenous solutions supersaturated by a factor up to 8 in calcium citrate tetrahydrate. A critical hydrogencitrate concentration for formation of homogeneous solutions was found to…
Food Research International. 2018 May
Supersaturation of calcium citrate as a mechanism behind enhanced availability of calcium phosphates by presence of citrate.
Dissolution of amorphous calcium phosphate (ACP) in aqueous citrate at varying pH has been studied with perspective of increasing availability of calcium from sidestreams of whey protein, lactose and/or cheese production or on development of new functional foods. ACP formed as an initial precipitate in 0.10 mol L-1 equimolar aqueous calcium chloride, sodium citrate, and sodium hydrogenphosphate…
Nutrients. 2018 Nov