Calcium Pumps

Paper Summary:

This paper provides a literature review of calcium pumps in the body. It discusses the vital actions of calcium pumps and describes how they work. The paper also discusses the factors that effect the efficiency of calcium pumps and what causes their function to be reduced. The paper specifically focuses on age-related diseases and how they effect the efficiency of calcium pumps.

Table of Contents:
Introduction
Literature Review
Discussion and Conclusion

From the Paper:

"Calcium ions are released to allow muscles to contract and perform its vital functions in life. But these muscles must also relax and calcium pumps perform that balancing function. Studies conducted on newborns and their mothers have shown that optimally functioning calcium pumps reduced the occurrence of toxicity from lead and mercury. Calcium pumps, however, tend to become less efficient with age and disease. When one ages, his fuel and energy level decrease. Age-related diseases set in. Calcium pumps require optimal levels of fuel and energy to continue performing efficiently. Aging dents these levels. These calcium pumps also reach their maximum capacity with age. And poorly performing calcium pumps may contribute to disease through their failure to reduce calcium levels brought about by contractions. Cardiovascular disease, diabetes and cancer can develop as a consequence. A disturbance in the performance of calcium pumps, therefore, can result in any of these serious or fatal conditions."

Sample of Sources Used:

• East, Malcom. Life, Death and Calcium. Chembytes E-zine: Chembyes Infozone, 2002
• Health and Age. The Essence of Heart Beat Changes with Aging. Health and Age.com. Retrieved on December 11, 2007 from http://www.healtheandage.com/html/res/aging_of_you/content/7.htm
• Huel Guy, et al. Hair Mercury Negatively Correlates with Calcium Pump Activity in Human Term Newborns and Their Mothers at Delivery. Environmental Health Perspectives: ehponline.org, 2007
• Loren, Karl. The Role of Calcium in the Blood - and Calcium Pump. Vibrant Life: Chelation Therapy Online, 2006. Retrieved on December 11, 2007 from http://www.chelationtherapyonline.com/articles/p185.htm
• Scripps. The Calcium Pump, 2007. Retrieved on December 11, 2007 from http://mgl_scripps.edu/people/goodsell/pdb/pdb51/pdb51_1.html

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