Calcium and vit d and phosperous and stuff like that

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What is hydrocyapatite made up of?

Calcium and phosphate

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What inhibits hydroxyapatite formation?

Pyrophosphate

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What inhibits pyrophosphate

Alkaline phosphatase

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What is normal serum Ca2+?

8.4-10.2 mg/dL

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What percfent of Ca is ionized

50%

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What percent of Ca is protein bound

40%

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What percent of Ca is complexed?

10%

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What types of Ca are free?

Ionized and complexed

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What happens with Ca in a state of acidosis?

More of it is released ‘ionized’

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What happens to Ca when there’s alkalosis

More Ca is bound

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What is the average intake of Ca2+?

About 1000 mg/d

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How much Ca is absorbed by the gut?

500 mg/d

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How much Ca does the gut release

325 mg/d

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How much Ca is excreted in total from the gut

825 mg/d

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How much does the kidney excrete

175 mg/d

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What is the major storage of Ca2+

Bone, about 1000g

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Normal serum Pi

3.0 to 4.5

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What percent of Pi is ionized

45%

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What percent of Pi is protein bound

15%

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What percent of Pi is complexed?

40%

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what percent of percent of the Pi is ionized and complexed/free

85%

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What happens to Pi in acidosis

More ionized

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What happens to Pi in alkalosis

more bound

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How much Pi is taken in on average?

1400 mg/d

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How much Pi is aborbed by the gut

1100 mg/d

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how much Pi is excreted by kidney

900 mg/d

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How much Pi is released by the feces

500 mg/dl

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What is the major store of Pi and how much

Bone, 600

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What brings Ca in from the lumen

TRPV5/6

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What brings Ca out of the cell

Ca2+ ATPase

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What brings Pi in

Na/Pi

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What activates calcitonin

Increased plasma Ca activates Ca2+ sensing receptors on C-cells, causing release

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How is calcitonin inhibited

Decreased plasma Ca, leads to lease CaSR activation, leads to decreased calcitonin

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What does calcitonin do to bone

inhibits osteoclasts, decreasing bone resorption, and decreased plasma Ca

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What does calcitonin do to the kidney

increased uribary Ca2+ excretion, and minor Pi reabsorption

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What can be used to treat osteoporosis

Calcitonin as a short tierm in severe hypercalcemia

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How are parathyroid chief cells activated?

Low plasma Ca, less CaSR activation, increased PTH release

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What does PTH bind to?

PTH1R

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What doe high plasma Pi cause?

Binding of Ca, lowering free Ca, resulting in PTH increase

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How is PTH inhibited?

Increased plasma Ca, Increased calcitriol, increased FGF23

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What does PTH do in bone?

Increases osteoblasts, TNKL, osteoclastic bone resorption, and increased plasma Ca and Pi

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What does PTH do in the kidney duct?

Ca reabsorption

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What does the kidney do in the proximal tube?

Decreases Pi absorption

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What does the kidney do to 1a-hydroxylase?

Increased conversion of calcidiol to calcitrol

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What organs are used for calcitriol synth

skin/diet → Liver → kidney

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What is made from skin/diet

cholecalciferol

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What is made from the liber?

25-Hydroxycholecaliferol

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What is made from the kidney?

1,25-dihydroxcholecalciferol

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What activates 25 Hydroxycholecalciferol?

1a-hydroxylase

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What stimulates 1-a hydroxylase

Increased PTH, decreased Pi

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What inhibits 1a-Hydroxylase?

Increased Ca, Increased FGF23

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How does 25 Hydroxylase inhibit production?

Feedback inhibition

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Inactive form of od 25 Hydroxycholecalicerol/1,25 dihydroxycholecalciferol?

24,25 Dihydroxycholecalciferol, 1,24,25-Trihydroxycholecalciferol

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What makes 24,25 Dihydroxycholecalciferol, 1,24,25-Trihydroxycholecalciferol

24 Hydroxylase

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What is rickets

childhood vitamin D deficiency which leads to defective bone mineralixation

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What is osteomalacia

Adult deficiency of vit D

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What is hypervitaminosis D

excess vitamin D

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What is the transport function of calcitriol

Circulate bound vitamin D-binding protein

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What is the receptor function of Vitamin D

Vitamin D receptor, a nuclear steriod receptor

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What does calcitrol do in the small intestine

Increases Ca and Pi absorption

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What does calcitriol do to parathyroid

decreases PTH synth

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What does calcitriol do to the osteocytes

FGF23 synth

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What does calcitriol do to the bone?

Bone turnover, movilizes Ca and Pu for bone remodeling

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What doe calcitriol do to the kidney

Ca reabsorption in DCT via increased Calbindin, and Pi absorption in PT

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What does an increased in plasma Ca result in?

reverses inhibition of 1a-hydroxylase

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What activates FGF23

increased plasma Pi, increased PTH and Calcitrol, FGFR

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What decreases FGF23

decreased plasma phosphate

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Actions of FGF23 in tha parathyroid

PTH synth in chief cells

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Actions of FGF23 in the kidney

NPT expression in proximal tubule, increasing urinary Pi excretion, decreased 1a-hydroxylase

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What does FGF23 do to the small intestine via calcitrol

Decreased NPT expression, decreasing Pi absorption

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What parts of CKD results in 2nd deg hyperparathyroidism

Increased phosphate, decreased vit D, and decreased Ca+ stimulate the release of PTH,

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How does CKD result in teriary hyperparathyroidism

Loss of CaSR and feedback sensitivity, and causing autonomous PTH secretion

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What is decreased and increased in 2nd deg hyperparathyroidism

Vit D, Ca2+, Pi decreased, FGF23 increased

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What happens in tertiary hyperparathyroidism

Increased ca2+, PTH, Pi, and decreased Vit D

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Why can cause hypocalcemia?

Hypoalbuminemia, hypoparathyroidism, pseudohyparathyroidism, vitamin D deficiency or renal insufficiency

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Symptoms of hypocalcemia?

Convulsions, arrythmias, tetany, trousseous sign, chvosteks sign

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What is trousseau sign?

Spasm in hand with BP held above wrist

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What is Chvostek’s sign?

Lip twitch upon tapping facial nerve

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What causes hypercalcimia

Primary hyperparathyroidism, hypervitaminosis D, bone metastases, cancer

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What are symptoms of hypercalcimia

Stones, bone pain, GI spasm abd pain nauesea, toilet due to polyuria, depression

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What is pseudohypoparathyroidism

defective PTHR

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What does OPG do?

Decoy receptor for Rankl, that prevents osteoclast maturation

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What increases OPG?

Calcitrol, estrogen, exercise/loading, androgens

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what does RANKL do

binds RANK on osteoclast to activate osteoclast precurorsor

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What increases RANKL?

PTH, calcitrol, and glucocorticoids

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Step one of osteolysis

PTH and vit D bind receptors on osteoblast

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Step 2 osteolysis

Increase secretion of RANKL, macrophage colony stimulating factor, IL-6, and reduce OPG

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Step 3 osteolysis

M-CSF diffrentiates stem cells into osteoclast precursors

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Step 4 of osteolysis

reduced secretion of OPG allows RANKL to bind RANK

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Step 5 of osteolysis

RANKL, VD, and IL-6 transform precuror cells into pre-osteoclasts

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Step 6 of osteolysis

Pre-osteoclasts merge into a mature osteoclast, which attaches to bone

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What are inhibitors of osteoclasts?

Estrogen, bisphosphonates, denosumab