Regulation of Calcium and Phosphate Metabolism Flashcards
What is the Chvostek sign?
what is it indicative of?
Trousseau sign? sign of?
Symptoms of Hypercalcemia?
decreased QT interval, constipation, lack of appetite, polyuria, polydipsia, muscle weakness, hyporeflexia, lethary, coma
Distribution of calcium in the body
- what is the active form?
- what can cross the membranes?
free ionized is active, ultrafilterable is able to cross membranes
Hypocalcemia does what to membrane excitability?
plasma calcium=?
what is hypocalcemic tetany?
-symptoms?
high plasma calcium does what to membranes, CNS?
What can change calcium concentration?
Changes in plasma protein concentration–> increase in plasma protein concentration produces increase in total calcium concentration that is protein bound, not the ionized calcium
changes in anion concentration–> change the fraction of calcium +2 complexed with anions (increased phosphate concentration decreases ionized Ca+2 concentration)
Acid base abnormalities
-change in binding sites available in albumin
how do acid base abnormalities alter ionized calcium concentrations?
in acidemia there is more hydrogen fighting for binding sites to albumin, opposite in alkalemia
What organ systems regulate homeostasis of calcium?
what three hormones?
bone, kidney, intestine
pth, calcitonin, vitamin D
stimulate bone resorption, leading to the release of calcium into the plasma
how are Extracellular concentrations of Pi related to Ca+2?
What cells secrete PTH?
secreted by chief cells in the parathyroid glands
What part of PTH does most of the biological activity?
1-34 aa
what is main stimulus of secretion of PTH?
low plasma Ca+2
Regulation of PTH gene expression and secretion:
- feedback mechanism
- how does chief cell sense levels of calcium?
- what does vitamin D do?
The mechanism of PTH secretion is explained as follows: The parathyroid cell membrane contains Ca 2+ sensing receptors that are linked, via a G protein (G q), to phospholipase C. When the extracellular Ca 2+ concentration is increased, Ca 2+ binds to the receptor and activates phospholipase C. Activation of phospholipase C leads to increased levels of IP 3 /Ca 2+ , which inhibitsPTH secretion. When extracellular Ca 2+ is decreased, there is decreased Ca 2+ binding to the receptor, whichstimulates PTH secretion.
Chronic hypercalcemia leads to?
-affect on synthesis/storage of PTH, breakdown of PTH/ release
Chronic hypocalcemia leads to?
-synthesis/storage affects, PTH glands?
What role does magnesium have?
-alcoholism?
How does PTH act?
- via what type of protein receptor?
- affect on bone?
- affect on Kidney?
- affect on intestine?
Overall goal?
How does Vitamin D promote mineralization of new bone?
- What does it do?
- What must happen for it to be activated?
Coordinated actions in the regulation of both Ca+2 and Pi plasma concentrations
Increases plasma Ca+2, Pi plasma concentrations
Must be hydroxylated to an active metabolite
what is the mechanism of vitamin D synthesis?
- what is converted in the skin and what does it require?
- Where can you also get this product?
- what process and where produces the main circulating form of vitamin D?
- what happens in the kidney?
- what is the important enzyme in the kidney?
(what stimulates this enzyme)
what happens to cholecalciferol in the liver and what does it require?
As noted, cholecalciferol itself is physiologically inactive. It is hydroxylated in the liver to form 25-hydroxycholecalciferol, which also is inactive. This hydroxylation step occurs in the endoplasmic reticulum and requires NADPH, O 2 , and Mg 2+ , but not cytochrome P-450. 25-Hydroxycholecalciferol is bound to an α-globulin in plasma and is the principal circulating form of vitamin D.
what happens in the kidney to 25-OH-cholecalciferol
In the kidney, 25-hydroxycholecalciferol undergoes one of two routes of hydroxylation: It can be hydroxylated at the C1 position to produce 1,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol, which is the physiologically active form, or it can be hydroxylated at C24 to produce 24,25-dihydroxycholecalciferol, which is inactive. C1 hydroxylation is catalyzed by the enzyme 1α-hydroxylase, which is regulated by several factors including the plasma Ca 2+concentration and PTH. C1 hydroxylation occurs in the renal mitochondria and requires NADPH, O 2 , Mg 2+ , and cytochrome P-450.