Mechanisms and functional aspects of intestinal calcium absorption
- 29 October 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of Experimental Zoology Part A: Comparative Experimental Biology
- Vol. 300A (1), 47-52
- https://doi.org/10.1002/jez.a.10308
Abstract
Calcium absorption, in terms of mechanisms and function, is well adapted to meet the calcium needs of mammals. When calcium levels in the food are low, the active, mediated transcellular calcium transport assumes primary importance. This process is vitamin D‐dependent, largely localized in the duodenum, and involves three steps: entry across the brush border, mediated by a molecular structure, CaT1, with two components; a facilitated transport that saturates at low luminal calcium concentration; and a channel component through which most calcium enters the cell at the higher luminal concentrations. Intracellular diffusion is assured by a small, cytosolic calcium binding molecule, calbindinD9k, which carries more than 90% of the calcium that traverses the duodenal cell, thus also serving as a buffer. Extrusion is by the CaATPase and is not a limiting step. Calcium entry is reduced by more than 90% in the absence of vitamin D, with biosynthesis of calbindinD9k totally vitamin D‐dependent. Active transport is upregulated on low calcium intake and downregulated at high calcium intake, when paracellular calcium transport through the tight junctions of the intestine becomes the dominant process. The amount of calcium absorbed paracellularly is a function of the calcium gradient between lumen and plasma and of the time the chyme spends at a given intestinal site. The coexistence of mediated and nonmediated transport processes assures the organism of an adequate calcium supply, yet prevents excessive calcium absorption. J. Exp. Zool. 300A:47–52, 2003.Keywords
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