Synonym: Ca, atomic number 20. Similar words: calculate, calculation, miscalculate, mercalli scale, odium, falcon, medium, talcum. Meaning: ['kælsɪəm] n. a white metallic element that burns with a brilliant light; the fifth most abundant element in the earth's crust; an important component of most plants and animals.
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151. These are thought by researchers to be the result of low calcium and magnesium and high aluminium in the brain.
152. What seems to happen is that the calcium in your food combines with oxalic acid right in your digestive tract.
153. This all-or-none response seems to arise through a positive feedback effect whereby calcium stimulates its own release.
154. As the time for the moult approaches, the animal absorbs much of the calcium carbonate from its shell into its blood.
155. Other less toxic or benign metals such as calcium, magnesium, and strontium are also efficiently dissolved.
156. Calcium will interfere and is eliminated by complexing with a ligand which binds calcium and not magnesium.
157. First, the build up of calcium may serve to sensitize the receptor as discussed earlier.
158. Whole milk contains fat, so a better choice that still retains the calcium content is semi-skimmed or skimmed milk.
159. The mineral to be most wary of is calcium, which can toughen some grains when used during cooking.
160. Hard water will, of course, affect soaping processes and consume soap by the formation of insoluble calcium and magnesium soaps.
161. Consequently, precipitation of luminal calcium by dietary phosphate should inhibit these effects.
162. Thus, at low concentrations, calcium is an activator of the enzyme.
163. Once development begins, the embryo divides rapidly and each mitosis seems to be associated with an increase in calcium.
164. In one path, the 40K decays to a calcium isotope, 40Ca.
165. These protective effects of calcium are not inhibited by a fourfold increase in dietary phosphate.
166. Do not use coral sand as a filter bed substrate as this will gradually dissolve and affect the calcium level.
167. Its overall effect is to raise serum ionized calcium levels and lower serum phosphorus levels.
168. And maintaining adequate calcium levels is important for women during the child-bearing years.
169. The treatment of this condition consists of vitamin D therapy and calcium supplementation.
170. Conclusion Over the past decade there has been enormous progress in our understanding of how cells use calcium to regulate their activity.
171. Vitamin D deficiency decreases intestinal calcium absorption, resulting in hypocalcemia.
172. From this medium, calcium is deposited in tissues, mainly bone, or filtered by the renal glomerulus.
173. Positive feedback enhances the initial release, but this is soon curtailed as the accumulation of calcium activates the negative feedback component.
174. Calcareous regosols contain free calcium carbonate in the parent material, shelly sand.
175. Just add calcium to the oocyte and meiosis will run to completion.
176. Eat extra protein from other sources and take a calcium supplement,[www.Sentencedict.com] which your doctor can prescribe.
177. These include the development of tetany and the deposition of calcium phosphate in soft tissues.
178. The traditional bran mash is very low in calcium and can therefore add to the problem instead of helping it.
179. Supplementary dietary phosphate decreased the fatty acid concentration only on the low calcium diet.
180. It is thought that uric acid crystals serve as a nidus for calcium oxalate crystallization resulting in subsequent stone formation.
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