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Where is calcium in the body?

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  • 99% sequested in bone
  • 1% in extracellular fluid
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What is calcium important for ?

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  • Bones
  • nerve
  • muscle
  • hormone function
  • clotting
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what is plasma calcium found as?

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  • 50% bound to albumin
  • 50% free
  • maintained at level 2.2-2.6mmol/L
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Where is the calcium absorbed from?

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  • The dudodenum
  • by active transport
  • mediated by calcium- binding protein and ATP
  • regulated by 1,25 dihydroxycholcalciferol (1,25 (OH)2- vitamin D3 via passive diffusion by the jejunum
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What precentage of calcium filtered by kidneys is reabsorbed?

where does this occur?

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  • 99%
  • 60% in proximal convoluted tubules
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Where is phosphate found?

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  • 85% stored in bone
  • functions as metabolite and buffer in enzyme systems
  • circulates unbound in plasma
  • daily requirement is 1-1.5g/day
  • dietary intake is usually sufficient
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What is the recommended intake of calcium for children/ 10-25 yrs, 25-65yrs, lacation, post menopause females?

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  • CHildren 600 mg/day
  • 10-25 yrs 1400 mg/day
  • 25-65 yrs 750 mg/day
  • lactation 2000 mg/day
  • post menopausal female 1500 mg/day
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How is vitamin D obtained?

what is its role?

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  1. Naturally occuring steriods are ingested from fish oils and plants
  2. activated by skin by UV light
  • they enhance calcium and phosphorous absorption across the small intestine via promotion and synthesis of calcium transporting protein and enhance osteoclastic resorption from bone , increasing serum **levels of calcium and phosphate **
  • vitamin D also inhibits PTH
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How does the activation process of vitamin D occur?

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  • UV light-> transforms 7 dehydrocholestrol to cholecalciferol ( vitamin D3)
  • hydroxylated in liver -> 25 hydroxycholecalciferol ( 25(OH) vitamin D3)
  • serum 25 hydroxycholecalciferol is the most accurate indicator of body vitamin D stores
  • further hydroxylation of 25 hydroxycholecalciferol occurs in mitochondria of proximal convulted tubular cells of kidney-> 1.25 dihydroxycholcalciferol ( 1.25(OH)2- vitamin D3- active form of vitamin D
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What activated vitamin D metabolism?

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  • Low serum calcium/ phosphate
  • High PTH
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What happens to vitamin D when there is low levels of PTH or increased levels of CA/Po4?

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  • Convserion of active 1,25 dihydroxycholecalciferol to inactive 24,25( OH)2 vitamin D3
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What is parathyroid hormone?

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  • 84 amino acid peptide
  • secreted by chief cells of the 4 parathyroid glands in the response to changes in EC calcium via calcium sensing receptor
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When in PTH secreted?

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  • In response to decreased serum calcium/phosphate
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When is PTH inhibited by?

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  • elevated serum calcium
  • elevated 1,25 dihydroxylcalciferiol
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What is PTH actions in the kidney?

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  • Stimulate of hydroxylation of 25 hydroxycalciferol 25(OH)- vitamin D3, in the proximal tubules-> indirect intestinal effects
  • increased reabsoption of filtered calcium in the kidney
  • promotion of urinary excretion of phosphate from kndney
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What is PTH actions in the bone?

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  • stimulates osteoclasts
  • stimulates precursors
  • -> bone reabsorption
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What is PTH overall effect?

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  • Serum calcium levels are increased and phosphate levels are decreased
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What is calcitonin?

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  • 32 aminoacid peptide
  • secreted by the parafollicular C cells of Thyroid gland
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When is Calcitonin secreted?

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  • In reponse to elevated serum calcium
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When is calcitonin inhibited?

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  • by decreased serum calcium
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What does calcitonin do?

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  • Directly inhibits osteoclasts ( have calcitonin receptors
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What are calcitonin effects?

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  • Include reduction of cellular motility
  • retraction of cytoplasmic extensions
  • reduction of ruffled osteoclast border
  • this produces a transient decrease in serum calcium
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What is the effect of oestrogen?

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  • Inhibits bone reasorption and therefore prevents bone loss
  • also inhibits bone formation
  • does not increase bone density
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What is the effect of corticosteriods on bone?
* **Reduce GI absorption** * **increase renal excretion of calcium** thus inhibiting bone matrix formation-\> **hyperparathyroidism**-\> **rapid bone loss** * pts on corticosteriods should be given calcium and vitamin D with or without bisphosphonates
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What do thyroid hormones have on the bone?
* **Increase bone turnover** * favouring bone absorption ( seen in hyperthyroidism)
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What do growth hormones do to bone?
* Produce a positive calcium balance by **increasing gut absorption**
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What does insulin do to bone loss?
* Type i if poorly controlled may lead to bone loss
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What do growth factors IL1, IL6 TNF alpha, IGF & TGF do to bone loss?
* **IL1, IL-6 , TNF alpha stimulate proliferation** of osteoclast precursors * **IGF activates osteoblasts**, produced by osteoblasts * **TGF activates osteoblasts,** also stimulates osteoclastic precursors in vitro
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What happens to bone mass with age?
* **Increases** up to a peak between **16-25yrs** * after this there is a **normal phsyiological loss of bone mass** over time for both men and women of **0.3-0.5 % per year** * thus calcium balance is positive in the first decades of life after which it becomes negative * women have an increase in bone loss up to **2-3% at the menopause** but **after the first menopausal decade the rate of bone loss is equivalent for both men and women**
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What is bone's 3 main function?
* **primary reservoir of calcium** * **Haemopoietic marrow** * located in cancellous bone supplies the body's cells. tissues and organs with erythrocyte, leukocytes and platelets * Bone has a **mechanical role** in supporting the body's tissues
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What is woven bone?
* collagen fibres are aligned **randomly** * no lamellae-\> bone weaker * more flexible * **isotrophic characteristics-** uniform properties in all directions
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Where is woven bone found?
* Embryonic/ Neonatal skeleton * metaphyseal region of growing bones * fx callus of children * absent in normal adult but appears in **hard callus** following fx * also found in pathological fx- **Pagets/osteogenesis imperfecta**
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What forms cortical and cancellous bone?
* **Lamellar** ( mature) bone * with **stress orientated fibres** * leads to an **aniostrophic characteristic**
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What cells lay down lamella bone?
* Osteoblasts
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Within each lamella what do the collagen fibres do?
* Run at oblique angles to each other- **herring bone** * **Cement lines** separate the lamella
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What is lamella bone composed of?
* predominantly a matrix with a small population of **osteocytes** ( trapped osteoblasts) encased within bony **lacunae** and resting **bone lining cells** ( with osteoblastic potential) covering the bony surfaces
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Decribe cortical bone?
* **80% of adult skeleton** * lamella laid down in concentric rings-\> tubular lamellar systems= **osteons/Haversian systems** * **approx 50um diameter** * **individual osteons are aligned along lines of force** (usually parallel with the long axis of the bone) * each osteon has a **central haversian canal surrounded by 5-7 concentric rings of lamella** * **cement lines- separate osteons**
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How do the osteocytes within the osteons communicate?
* Via gap junctions within channels = **canaliculi**
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What is the name of the second set of canals that penetrate the cortical bone? what is there function?
* **Volkmann's canal** * run **perpendicular to the long bone axis** connecting inner an outer surfaces of bone * canals carry **blood vessels to and from the haversian system**
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What is the young's modulus of cortical bone?
* YM 20GPa cf cancellous 1GPa * cortical bone is more resistant to bending and torsion * Denser
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Where is cancellous bone found?
* metaphysis and epiphysis of long bones * centrally in cuboid bones
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What is the structure of cancellous bone?
* **3d lattice of interconnecting tabeculae** which are alignes along axis of mechanical stress, enclosing elements of the bone marrow * each of the trabeculae is made up of parallel sheets of **lamella** * **osteocyte****s, lacunae adn canaculi similar to cortical bone** * **_No haversian systems_** * **x8 turnover rate of cortical bone** due to large surface area * less dense, less elastic, brittle& less strong than cortical bone
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Describe the layers of the periosteum?
* **Inner cambial layer- loose, vascular , oseogenic** * **outer fibrous layer**- **more structural, less cellular** and **continuous with joint capsules** * with age the periosteum thins adn has less osteogenic potential
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What is bone?
* Composite materal consisting of cells 10% and matrix 90% that has inorganic and organic compotents
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Describe the cells of bone?
* **Osteoblasts** * **Osteocytes** * **Bone lining cells** * **Osteoclasts**
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What are osteoblasts?
* from **Undifferentiated Mesenchymal stem cells** in marrow * Produce **osteoid** ( bone forming cells) - contains type 1 collagen, deposied in pre-exisiting mineralised surfaces * Have great **Synthetic capacity** ( abundant rough endoplasmic reticulum, golgi apparatus and mitochondria) * show **high alkaline phosphatase activity** * mediated by bone morphogenic proteins,growth factors and cytokines * 3 fates * become **inactive bone - lining cells** * surround with matrix-\> **osteocytes** * undergo **apoptosis**
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What are osteocytes?
* **osteoblasts that become entrapped by calcified bone matrix** * **90%** of bone cell population * interconnect via **long cytoplasmic processes** in the canaliculi * important in **controlling calcium** and **phosphorous metabolism-** respond to PTH/Calcitonin/ mechanical and electrical potential
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What are bone lining cells?
* Flat cells lying on the surface of the bone possess **cytoplasmic extensions** that pentrate bone matrix & **communicate with osteocytes** * **Inactive osteoblasts **that may be reactivated to become osteoblasts * **Gatekeeper function**: when stimulated by PTH, they undergo cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) mediated morphological changes that expose the bone surface and _allow osteoclasts to start resorption_
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What are osteoclasts?
* Mononuclear osteoclast precursor cells (**preosteoclasts**) arise from **haematopoietic _macrophage_ and _monocyte stem-cell line_** * found in marrow and circulating blood * _When stimulated_ these cells _proliferate & fuse_ -\> **large multinucleated osteoclast** * **typically 3-20 nuclei,** large no of mitochondria and lyosomes that produce **acid phosphatase** * osteoclasts reabsorb bone _within pits_ **= Howship's lacunae** on endosteal/periosteal surface of bone * **Ruffles ( brush) border** that increases surface area which binds to bone surface via **Integrins**, sealing the area * A **low pH** is produced beneath this area ( via _carbonic anhydrase system, adenosine triphosphate dependent proton pumps and the Na/H+ exchange system_ which dissolves the inorganic apatite crystals * _Acid protelytic lysosomal enzymes_, such as tartrate-resistant isoenzyme of acid phosphatase ( **TRAP**) and cysteine proteinases such as **cathepsin** then hydrolyse the organic matrix components * In dense _cortical bone_, OC lead **cutting cones** that tunnel thru the bone creating resorption cavities * control of OC is related to OB
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What is a bone remodelling unit?
* is an **area of remodelling by a set of osteoblasts. osteoclasts and stromal supporting tissue** * in normal bone formation matches resorption with continual turnover of bone * osteoclast precursors are activated -\> osteoclasts which reabsorb bone * this is followed by reversal , whereby osteblast precursors are activated to form osteoblasts which lay down osteoid, which undergoes mineralisation to form bone
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What does the bone matrix consist of?
* **Inorganic matrix 60% -** resists **compression forces** * **Organic matrix 40% -** resists **tensile forces**
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What is the inorganic matric composed of?
* **Calcium phosphate crystals** analogous to **calcium hydroxyapatite** * **Ca10 ( PO4)6(OH)2** * **Mineralisation-=** formation of solid calcium phosphate crystals * **Osteocalcium phosphate ( brushite)-** also in bone * serves as **reservoir 99% body's calcium, 85% phosphorous, 40-60% Na/K**
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What is the composition of the organic matrix?
* **Collagen type 1 =90% of organic matrix** * _triple helix of 2x alpha1 and 1x alpha2 chains_ with a repitive Gly XY sequence where glycine is the first position and X and Y are often proline/hydroxyproline arranged in a quarter staggered structural array-\> single fibrils * responsible for the **tensile strength** of bone * small amount of V and XI collagen * **Bone specific proteoglycans** * invovled in mineralisation/organistion of collagen fibres/binding of growth factors * **Non collagenous matrix proteins** * **Osteocalcin** * **Osteonectin** * **OSteopontin** * **bone sialoprotein II** * **​Growth factors/cytokines** * **​BMP-17** ( members of transforming growth factor beta) * **Insulin growth factor I** & **II** * **Interleukins 1** &** 6**
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What is Osteocalcin?
* produced by osteoblasts * involved in control of osteoclasts * gene on chromosome 1
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What is Osteonectin?
* Secreted by Osteoblasts and platelets * regulation of mineralisation * gene on chromosome 5
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What is osteopontin?
* A **non bone specific cell- binding protein anchoring osteoclasts to mineralised matrix** * gene on chromosome 4
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What is a good marker of bone turnover?
* **Hydroxyproline**
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What is a good indiator of bone formation?
* Pro-collagen * collagen telopeptides- carboxy-terminal * bone specific alkaline phosphatase * osteocalcin
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What is a good indicator of bone breakdown?
* Pyridinoline and deoxypyridinoline * X linkages formation beween adjacent triple helices are broken down
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What is the blood supply to the bone?
* **Nutrient artery** system- (high pressure ) * **Metaphyseal- epiphyseal** system * **Periosteal system** ( low pressure)
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Describe the nutrient artery system?
* Major artery enters the mid-diaphysis thru a **nutrient foramen** * once in medullary canal it divides into **ascending and descending arteries or arterioles** which anastomose with **metaphsyeal vessels** and directly penetrate the **endosteal surface supplying the inner 2/3rd cortex** * in a child these vessels end on the metaphyseal side of the physis, contributing to process of endochondrl ossification * at microscopic level, arterioles run in volkmann's canals with branches to the haversian systems, draining to venules and then into central venous sinus and out via the nutrient vein
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Describe the metaphsyeal-epiphyseal system?
* Periarticular system complex penetrates the thin cortex and supplies the **metaphysis, physis and epiphysis.** * **the metaphyseal vessels anatomose with the medullary and epiphyseal arteries after the growth plate fusion** * in epiphysis with large articular surfaces such as radial and femoral heads, vessels enter the bone between articular cartilage and the physis, making the supply tenuous
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Describe the periosteal system?
* Capillaries enter at the sites of major muscle attachments, normally supplying outer 1/3rd of teh cortex * this is the domiant system in children- responsible for circumferential growth *
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what is the normal direction of blood fow in the bone?
* **Centrifugal** * **ie inside to out**
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What happens to bone blood flow after IM nailing?
* The endosteal blood suuply is damaged * the **periosteal system becomes dominant ** * so the flow -\> **Centripetal = out to in** * **venous blood system is normally centripetal**
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