BIOL W3006: Physiology, Fall 2000

Topic 4: Calcium balance

Thursday, October 5 :  Bone structure and function

• Lecture
  • Using Medline and Science Citation Index
  • Assignment on birth
  • Functions of calcium
  • Calcium balance
  • Bone structure
    
• Assignment
  • Medline or Medline Plus or PubMed or the Grateful Med
  • Science Citation Index

• Required reading
  • For today: "The Timing of Birth"

• Other reading
  • Sherwood (4th ed): 700-702 & figures on 706, 707; 657-660;  or (3rd ed): 686-687; 645-646

• Health issues
  • Getting enough calcium and vitamin D from the Mayo Clinic
  • Osteoporosis from the National Osteoporosis Foundation, a support group

Tuesday, October 10:  Endocrine control of calcium

• Lecture
  • Bone development in the fetus
  • Parathyroid hormone
  • Calcitonin
  • Growth hormone
    

• Required reading
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• Other reading
  • Sherwood (4th ed):702-706; 660-664;  or (3rd ed): 688-691; 647-650

Thursday, October 12:  EXAM #1 

Tuesday, October 17:  Vitamin D and skin

• Lecture
  • Parathyroid hormone
  • Vitamin D
  • Skin and melanocytes
  • Calcitonin
  • Astronauts' bones
    

• Required reading
  • S.M. Smith, et al., Calcium metabolism before, during, and after a 3-mo spaceflight:
    kinetic and biochemical changes  American Journal of Physiology, Vol. 277, Issue 1, R1-R10, July 1999
  • Assignment 4

• Other reading
  • Sherwood (4th ed):706-710; 425-427  or (3rd ed): 691-695; 408-410