(a.) Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, calcium or lime.
Example Sentences:
(1) More rarely vasomotor troubles happen in homocystinuria, inhalation of a toxic (trichlorethylen, calcic cyanamid) and exceptionally in some immunohaematologic diseases.
(2) We have studied in rats fed hypercholesterolemic diet the action of calcic and magnesic sulphurous water from Capvern on the modification of the lipoproteins metabolism caused by hypercholesterolemia.
(3) In the majority of the cases the calcic urolithiasis is idiopathic, i.e.
(4) In lipid deprivation or excess, important disorders of phospho-calcic metabolism appear particularly in young growing subjects.
(5) The known predilection for some tissues and organs in these calcic fixations, is gets to value the endonasal and cutaneous infrequent appearance, on this case.
(6) Examination of 185274 cases of symptomless crystalluria in the citizens of Kharkov and Kharkov region revealed oxalic-calcic urinary crystals in 12.2%, urate crystals in 3.6% and phosphate crystals in 1.2% of the examinees.
(7) The second trial (237 patients) compared unfractionated calcic Heparin (5000 U.I.
(8) Atrophy of the germinal epithelium with impairment of the spermiogenesis associated with intratubular calcic microspheres was demonstrated.
(9) These data show that tooth constitutes a target-organ for 1,25-Dihydroxyvitamin D3, as other components of the phospho-calcic metabolism.
(10) In the patients studied, chondrocalcinosis was proved by the very characteristic pictures of calcic incrustations of the cartilage sheath and the fibro-cartilages, by the discovery of micro-crystals of calcium pyrophosphate in the articular fluid or, at biopsy, by the thickness of the synovial fluid.
(11) During the last third of pregnancy, the rat phospho-calcic metabolism is clearly modified.
(12) 3) Calcic lithiasis (74 cases, 8 females, 2 hereditary cases) is the most frequent form of pancreatic lithiasis.
(13) With the aim of analysing the role played by osteocytes in phospho-calcic homeostasis and in bone metabolism, the amount of bone tissue respectively reabsorbed by osteocytes and by osteoclasts had morphometrically been evaluated in unloaded skeletal segments.
(14) Their pathogenesis, linked to the important variations of calcaemia and phospho-calcic product, is not a function of duration of haemodialysis.
(15) On the other hand, MR Imaging fails to detect calcic areas in paravertebral masses; moreover, the exhaustive and morphostructural analysis of bone segments, ribs and vertebrae, is allowed only by CT.
(16) According to the results of the investigations, several forms of therapeutic management have been used: 1) Steroids-aspirin-calcic heparin for Autoimmune cases.
(17) 3) Calcic heparin for the altered antipaternal lymphocytotoxic activity.
(18) Four weeks after the beginning of the treatment, a calcic precipitation method is used for obtaining a preparation of liver microsomes from these animals.
(19) Quantitative analysis of urinary cyclic AMP in phospho-calcic pathology.
(20) These facts are possible pathophysiological mechanisms in human disorders: The so-called humanized milks are close to human milk regarding their capacity of stimulation of phospho-calcic absorption and growth.
Calcium
Definition:
(n.) An elementary substance; a metal which combined with oxygen forms lime. It is of a pale yellow color, tenacious, and malleable. It is a member of the alkaline earth group of elements. Atomic weight 40. Symbol Ca.
Example Sentences:
(1) In studies of calcium metabolism in 13 unselected patients with untreated sarcoidosis all were normocalcaemic but five had hypercalcuria.
(2) After stimulation with lipopolysaccharide and calcium ionophore A23187, culture supernatants of clones c18A and c29A showed cytotoxic activity against human melanoma A375 Met-Mix and other cell lines which were resistant to the tumor necrosis factor, lymphotoxin and interleukin 1.
(3) The half-life of 45Ca in the various calcium fractions of both types of bone was 72 hours in both the control and malnourished groups except the calcium complex portion of the long bone of the control group, which was about 100 hours.
(4) Calcium alginate dressings have been used in the treatment of pressure ulcers and leg ulcers.
(5) of PLA2 caused marked degranulation of mast cells in the rat mesentery which was facilitated by addition of calcium ion (10 mM) but antagonized by pretreating with three antiinflammatory agents.
(6) Thus adrenaline, via pre- and post-junctional adrenoceptors, may contribute to enhanced vascular smooth muscle contraction, which most likely is sensitized by the elevated intracellular calcium concentration.
(7) It includes preincubation of diluted plasma with ellagic acid and phospholipids and a starting reagent that contains calcium and a chromogenic peptide substrate for thrombin, Tos-Gly-Pro-Arg-pNA.
(8) The results show that endolymph is extremely inhomogenous with respect to calcium potentials.
(9) The occupation of the high affinity calcium binding site by Ca(II) and Mn(II) does not influence the Cu(II) binding process, suggesting that there is no direct interaction between this site and the Cu(II) binding sites.
(10) This was unlike the action of the calcium channel blocker, cadmium, which reduced the calcium action potential and the a.h.p.
(11) Increases in extracellular calcium antagonized the negative inotropic effect.
(12) Plasma membranes were isolated from rat kidney and their transport properties for sodium, calcium, protons, phosphate, glucose, lactate, and phenylalanine were investigated.
(13) In experiments performed to determine whether PtdIns(4,5)P2 hydrolysis induced by TRH may have been caused by the elevation of [Ca2+]i, the following results were obtained: the effect of TRH to decrease the level of PtdIns(4,5)P2 was not reproduced by the calcium ionophore A23187 or by membrane depolarization with 50 mM K+; the calcium antagonist TMB-8 did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2; and, most importantly, inhibition by EGTA of the elevation of [Ca2+]i did not inhibit the TRH-induced decrease in PtdIns(4,5)P2.
(14) The distribution of gelsolin, a calcium-dependent actin-severing and capping protein, in the retina of the developing and adult rabbit was studied.
(15) In K+-depolarized basilar arteries, ifenprodil competitively antagonized the response to Ca2+, and this was enhanced by pre-incubation in calcium hopantenate.
(16) Thirty of the 32 women of the calcitonin group and 27 of 28 women of the calcium group finished treatment.
(17) The influence of calcium ions on the electrophoretic properties of phospholipid stabilized emulsions containing various quantities of the sodium salts of oleic acid (SO), phosphatidic acid (SPA), phosphatidylinositol (SPI), and phosphatidylserine (SPS) was examined.
(18) Hypercalcitoninemia was the most pronounced in patients with cardiac rhythm disorders and a simultaneous reduction in total serum calcium.
(19) The effects of low doses of dihydropyridine (DHP) calcium channel antagonists nimodipine, nifedipine, (-)-R-202-791, and amlodipine, the DHP calcium channel agonist BAY K 8644 were investigated on clonic convulsions to pentylenetetrazole (PTZ) in mice.
(20) A comprehensive review of the roentgenographic features of calcium pyrophosphate crystal deposition disease (pseudogout) is presented.