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978-1-59259-961-5

Calcium in Human Health

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-1-59259-961-5

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Calcium performs diverse biological functions in the human body and is a micronutrient essential to human health and well-being. It serves as a second messenger for nearly every biological process, stabilizes many proteins, and in deficient amounts is associated with a large number diseases and disorders. In Calcium in Human Health, a panel of highly respected researchers and clinical practitioners comprehensively reviews the state of our knowledge concerning this ubiquitous micronutrient, not only demonstrating its importance to human health, but also defining its many complex roles.


Subject: Chemistry and Materials Science, Absorption, Calcium, Nutrition, Vitamin D, cancer, metabolism, tea